Apply an updateThis issue is addressed in CVE-2017-11882 | Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability.Disable Microsoft Equation Editor in OfficeThe vulnerable Equation Editor component can be disabled in Microsoft Office by importing the following registry values:Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Common\COM Compatibility{0002CE02-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}]“Compatibility Flags”=dword:00000400[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Office\Common\COM Compatibility{0002CE02-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}]“Compatibility Flags”=dword:00000400Add EMET or Windows Defender Exploit Guard protections to eqnedt32.exeExploitation of the vulnerable Equation Editor can be prevented by applying exploit mitigations to the eqnedt32.exe executable. In particular, enabling ASLR for should be sufficient to block the code re-use attack that is outlined in the Embedi documentation.Enable system-wide ASLR in WindowsWindows with properly-enabled system-wide ASLR (see VU#817544 for more details affecting Windows 8 and newer systems) will block known exploits for this vulnerability.