Unpatched Vulnerability in Microsoft Office

Researchers at the RSA Conference unveiled a zero day flaw in Microsoft Office that, when exploited on a Java enabled system, could lead to complete ownage of the end point. Microsoft Security Research has responded and said they won't be releasing a patch for it now, but might at a future date. Note the flaw is being actively exploited in the wild, not a theoretical situation. However, researchers admit this is not an easy flaw to exploit and requires in-depth knowledge of the format. Details are here at this ThreatPost article:

https://threatpost.com/zero-day-exploit-microsoft/142327/