Microsoft has released updates to both its Office 2008 and 2004 suites for the Mac. The Office 2008 12.1.7 and Office 2004 11.5.4 patches address issues with security and performance; among these are vulnerabilities which could be exploited with malicious code in order to overwrite a computer’s memory.

The Office 2008 12.1.7 update is a 267.7MB download, and includes all of the improvements in previous releases in the series; Mac OS X 10.4.9 is required. The Office 2004 11.5.4 update requires Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later, and is sized at 9.7MB.