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Once you do any of these, you will find these files in the EQUATION folder (possibly along some other files in Office 2016):\n\n",{"type":1021,"style":1022,"children":1106},[1107,1113,1119,1125,1131],{"type":1025,"children":1108},[1109],{"type":848,"children":1110},[1111],{"type":851,"value":1112},"EQNEDT32.CNT - help file index",{"type":1025,"children":1114},[1115],{"type":848,"children":1116},[1117],{"type":851,"value":1118},"EQNEDT32.EXE - Equation Editor executable",{"type":1025,"children":1120},[1121],{"type":848,"children":1122},[1123],{"type":851,"value":1124},"eqnedt32.exe.manifest - Equation Editor manifest file",{"type":1025,"children":1126},[1127],{"type":848,"children":1128},[1129],{"type":851,"value":1130},"EQNEDT32.HLP - help file",{"type":1025,"children":1132},[1133],{"type":848,"children":1134},[1135],{"type":851,"value":1136},"MTEXTRA.TTF - MathType font file",{"type":848,"children":1138},[1139,1141,1144],{"type":851,"value":1140},"\nMake sure you have EQNEDT32.EXE version 2017.8.14.0, which is the latest version provided by Microsoft.\n\nWhat you don't want to do is download the missing files from the Internet, as that is not only a potential violation of your license, but also a great way to get malware on your computer. So don't do that.\n\nOnce you have the above Equation Editor files at hand, copy them to the EQUATION folder from which they have been removed on a computer with all updates (including the January 2018 Office update) installed. You will need to have administrative permissions for this, and you may be prompted to overwrite an existing 0-byte EQNEDT32.EXE, which seems to be left on some systems.\n\n\n\n",{"type":851,"marks":1142,"value":1143},[853],"B. Re-register Equation Editor as a local COM server",{"type":851,"value":1145},"\n\nRegistering a local COM server requires creating a valid CLSID registry key with required subkeys and values. To make it easier for you, we prepared a template .REG file that you can edit and import in your registry. To do so, follow these instructions:\n\n",{"type":1021,"style":1076,"children":1147},[1148,1161,1167],{"type":1025,"children":1149},[1150],{"type":848,"children":1151},[1152,1154,1159],{"type":851,"value":1153},"Download ",{"url":1155,"type":12,"children":1156},"/files/EquationEditor.reg",[1157],{"type":851,"value":1158},"EquationEditor.reg",{"type":851,"value":1160},".",{"type":1025,"children":1162},[1163],{"type":848,"children":1164},[1165],{"type":851,"value":1166},"Edit EquationEditor.reg (right-click on it and select \"Edit\"), find in it the path to EQNEDT32.EXE, and change it to the actual path in the EQUATION folder on your computer where you restored the files in step A. IMPORTANT: The path should use double back slashes instead of single ones (just like in our sample reg file above), so make sure to duplicate all back slashes in your path.",{"type":1025,"children":1168},[1169],{"type":848,"children":1170},[1171],{"type":851,"value":1172},"Import the modified EquationEditor.reg to registry by first launching the Registry Editor (regedit.exe) as Administrator, then selecting File-Import... in its menu and browsing to your EquationEditor.reg file.",{"type":848,"children":1174},[1175,1177,1180,1182,1185,1187,1191,1193,1200,1202,1205,1207,1210,1212,1215,1217,1220,1222,1225,1227,1230,1232,1235,1237,1240,1242,1245],{"type":851,"value":1176},"\nVoila, if everything went well, you can now edit your equation objects in Equation Editor again, and save them back to Word files. Note that it sometimes takes up to a few minutes for this registry change to come into effect; until it does, opening an equation object will result in the \"Microsoft Equation is not available\" error.\n\nIf Equation Editor complains that it's missing a font, reinstall MTEXTRA.TTF.\n\n",{"type":851,"marks":1178,"value":1179},[853],"Important: you will be able to - and are highly encouraged to - keep applying official Office updates after completing this procedure to keep future vulnerabilities in other parts of Office patched. The whole point of this blog post is to help you keep Equation Editor while keeping your Office Applications updated.",{"type":851,"value":1181},"\n\nBut you're not done yet! Now you have to get your Equation Editor patched. On to step C.\n\n\n",{"type":851,"marks":1183,"value":1184},[853],"C. Install 0patch Agent",{"type":851,"value":1186},"\n\n0patch provides free micropatches for Equation Editor (and many other software products). To install it, ",{"url":55,"type":12,"children":1188},[1189],{"type":851,"value":1190},"download",{"type":851,"value":1192}," and launch the installer, ",{"url":1194,"meta":1195,"type":12,"children":1197},"https://dist.0patch.com/User/Register",[1196],{"id":866,"value":867},[1198],{"type":851,"value":1199},"create a free 0patch account",{"type":851,"value":1201}," and register the agent to that account. You will immediately receive all Equation Editor micropatches - [Updated 2/20/2018] one for CVE-2018-0802 and one for CVE-2018-0798, but as we receive details on the other vulnerabilities, we'll issue additional micropatches.\n\n\n",{"type":851,"marks":1203,"value":1204},[853],"Expected Questions",{"type":851,"value":1206},"\n\nThese are some of the questions we anticipate and would like to answer in advance.\n\n\n",{"type":851,"marks":1208,"value":1209},[875],"Q: Why are you doing this? Equation Editor is a 17-year-old pile of insecure code and should die!",{"type":851,"value":1211},"\n\nIn today's \"Move fast and break things\" world we're accustomed to the idea that software must be perpetually and frequently replaced with new versions. In fact, much of the global software business is built on \"incentivizing\" users to buy a new version of a product that works just fine for them. Of course the underlying hardware is improving, and new attacks are being invented, so software code effectively does get worse in time even if it doesn't change a bit, but let's hold back for a moment.\n\n\"17-year-old code\" sounds borderline outrageous to many, but we often forget that there are products ",{"type":851,"marks":1213,"value":1214},[875],"we want to keep",{"type":851,"value":1216}," for 20 years or more. Say, medical devices. If an MRI machine running a  reasonably new, well tested operating system costs $500k, and its hardware can be serviced for 20 years, do we really want to throw it out after 10 years because it stops getting security updates from the OS vendor? Heck no. What we actually want is for it to remain immutable as much as possible for 20 years, and not get ",{"type":851,"marks":1218,"value":1219},[875],"any",{"type":851,"value":1221}," software changes that aren't necessary for its function and security. This is hard to grasp if you're used to replacing half of your operating system every month.\n\nClearly, Equation Editor is not a life-critical piece of equipment and seems relatively cheap to replace. It does, however, allow for a nice demonstration how an abandoned software product can be ",{"type":851,"marks":1223,"value":1224},[875],"\"security-adopted\"",{"type":851,"value":1226}," by a 3rd party, allowing its continued use without exposing one's environment to cheap public exploits.\n\n\n",{"type":851,"marks":1228,"value":1229},[875],"Q: Isn't Equation Editor full of vulnerabilities and risky to use even if you patch the publicly known issues?",{"type":851,"value":1231},"\n\nIt's impossible to say whether any software product is \"full of vulnerabilities\" or not without thoroughly inspecting it. Nine vulnerabilities having been found in it in quick succession is easily explained by the fact that before Embedi decided to look under the hood, Equation Editor was shielded by a veil of obscurity. Once they've pointed out how its attack surface can be reached from a Word document, it became an easy toy to play with and apparently attracted many researchers. The additional eight vulnerabilities were most likely all low-hanging fruit, i.e., easy to find. But once we patch them, will it be easy to find the next one? No one knows, and if anyone claims to know, kindly ask them for evidence.  \n\n\n",{"type":851,"marks":1233,"value":1234},[875],"Q: How long are you planning to provide patches for Equation Editor?",{"type":851,"value":1236},"\n\nWith the details we currently have about the known vulnerabilities in Equation Editor, it seems it should be easy for us to micropatch them. Should anyone find additional vulnerabilities in it (and since it's been removed from Office, ",{"type":851,"marks":1238,"value":1239},[875],"very few ",{"type":851,"value":1241},"will bother searching), we'll try to micropatch that too. It could happen, although unlikely, that a design vulnerability is found which would be extremely difficult to micropatch, or would require an unreasonable amount of effort on our part. In such case we too will abandon our security support. We hope this will not happen.\n\n\n",{"type":851,"marks":1243,"value":1244},[875],"Q: How will we receive subsequent micropatches for Equation Editor?",{"type":851,"value":1246},"\n\nAs long as 0patch Agent on your computer has access to the Internet, all subsequent micropatches for Equation Editor will be automatically delivered to your computer and immediately, automatically applied to Equation Editor when it gets launched. If you happen to be using Equation Editor when a new micropatch arrives, the micropatch will get applied to it without disturbing you (i.e., you won't even have to relaunch Equation Editor).",{"type":848,"children":1248},[1249],{"type":851,"value":1250}," ",{"type":848,"children":1252},[1253,1256],{"type":851,"marks":1254,"value":1255},[875],"Q: After having used Equation Editor for some time as described here, it suddenly stopped working. What can I do?",{"type":851,"value":1257},"\n\nOne of our users approached us with this problem but also found a solution by themselves and kindli shared it with us. It turned out that one of Office updates appeared to have deleted the content of EQNEDT32.EXE, replacing it with an empty file (size 0). Overwriting this file with the original EQNEDT32.EXE seemed to have resolved the problem.",{"type":848,"children":1259},[1260],{"type":851,"value":1261},"In general, should any problems occur after having a working setup, it is best to start by re-doing all the steps in section \"Bringing Equation Editor Back To Life.\"\n",{"type":848,"children":1263},[1264,1266,1269,1271,1276,1278,1285,1287,1293],{"type":851,"value":1265},"\n\n\n",{"type":851,"marks":1267,"value":1268},[853],"Outro",{"type":851,"value":1270},"\n\nThere you go. Let us know how this works for you - share your experience, questions and possible concerns in the comments below.\n\nNote that we can only provide support for our micropatches (email to ",{"url":1272,"type":12,"children":1273},"mailto:support@0patch.com",[1274],{"type":851,"value":1275},"support@0patch.com",{"type":851,"value":1277},") and not general technical support for Equation Editor. If you encounter any issues with Equation Editor that you haven't seen before, first disable 0patch Agent and see if the issue is still there. If disabling the Agent resolves the issue, please report it to us, otherwise contact Microsoft.\n\n\nCheers!\n\n",{"url":1279,"meta":1280,"type":12,"children":1282},"https://twitter.com/mkolsek",[1281],{"id":866,"value":867},[1283],{"type":851,"value":1284},"@mkolsek",{"type":851,"value":1286},"\n",{"url":699,"meta":1288,"type":12,"children":1290},[1289],{"id":866,"value":867},[1291],{"type":851,"value":1292},"@0patch",{"type":851,"value":1294},"\n\n\n* The initial public perception after the January Patch Tuesday was that Equation Editor had a single reported vulnerability (CVE-2018-0802) when in fact it was eight of them. 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