Microsoft Publishes Office Symbols to Improve Bug Hunting

guest · Aug 9, 2022

August 9, 2022

Symbols are pieces of information used during debugging, and are contained within Symbol files, which are created by the compiler during application build.

Some of these symbols are called ‘public symbols’. They contain basic information, such as function names and global variables, and are used in all forms of debugging. Symbol files that contain only public symbols are called ‘stripped symbol files’.
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Starting August 9, Microsoft Office is publishing stripped symbol files via the Microsoft Public Symbol Server, to provide security researchers with additional information when hunting for bugs in Office products, and to help them create more detailed reports.

“Symbols empower customers and partners to better understand and potentially diagnose issues they’re encountering. They also open the door for the development of more advanced performance tools and insights,” Microsoft says.
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According to the tech giant, Office symbols can be used by hardware and software vendors for diagnostics purposes, as well as by performance test suites, to deliver more tailored performance reporting.

Microsoft starts with the publishing of Office symbols for the following builds: Current Channel/July Fork Build 16.0.15601.20037/ Version 2208 and Beta Channel/DevMain Build 16.0.15606.20000/ Version 2209.
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Microsoft: Microsoft Office to publish symbols starting August 2022

We are excited to announce that Microsoft Office will begin publishing Office symbols for Windows via the Microsoft Public Symbol Server on August 9th 2022. The publication of Office symbols is a part of our continuing investment to improve security and performance for customers and partners.
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