Security experts say that the exploit won't be widespread because numerous companies block the use of .mdb files.

According to a US-CERT alert, the attacks are using an unpatched stack buffer overflow vulnerability in the way Microsoft Access handles specially crafted database files.

News Exploit Targets Microsoft Access Database By Jabulani Leffall 12/13/2007 Exploits continue to dog Microsoft programs and applications, as a government agency announced this week that a bug is in ...

Microsoft's Access database management software, as offered through Office 365 service plans, now supports the dBase file format, yet again.

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Microsoft Access allows business and other large, data-sharing entities to create databases storing vast amounts of information. Anyone using Access can share these database files with one another.

Microsoft Access is a database management system (DBMS) that businesses can use to store and manage large amounts of data.