Microsoft Office 2000 ODBC Driver Vulnerability Security Update

Microsoft Office 2000 ODBC Driver Vulnerability Security Update is released as a helpful and important update for ODBC that can eliminate the vulnerability in the ODBC database driver that affected Excel 2000 users. This vulnerability is related to the IISAM component of the ODBC database driver and could be exploited using an Excel 2000 query to do malicious acts similar to those described in Office ODBC Driver Vulnerability. Microsoft produced a solution to this specific vulnerability and has now included additional IISAM files in the update.

Note If you are running Windows 2000, you do not need to install this patch.

Note Microsoft recommends that all Office 2000 and Excel 2000 users update their systems with this security update. For corporate users, we recommend that you first contact your system administrators before applying any updates or patches. For additional technical details on this update, please see the Microsoft Security Bulletin MS99-030.

Note This patch requires Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 3.51, or Windows NT 4.0.

To ensure the integrity of your Office 2000 installation, the Office 2000 ODBC Driver Vulnerability Security Update requires access to the Office 2000 CD or your network installation location during the installation process.