The Mac BU at Microsoft has acknowledged a security issue, and has released a fix, and plans to release an update.

The problem is that the Microsoft Office Installer changes permissions for the Microsoft Office install and the Automator Library folder to user 502, or the second account created on a given Mac. It’s not a huge problem, because there is no threat if you only have one user, and if you have more than one user, all that they can do is mess with your Office install. They cannot really do anything malicious to your Mac.

Pat O, Director of Marketing and Planning for Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit announced via Microsoft’s Mac Mojo blog that Microsoft Office 2008 will “launch” on January 15th. On January 14th, many MacBU team members will be available at Macworld for the “A Day at the Office” conference, “a day-long conference at the Moscone [...] dedicated more »