Adobe's Zero-Day Exploit

I receive more and more spam every day and I hear of more and more attacks like this one (as well as RSA's). It seems that malicious code within a Microsoft Word document can exploit a vulnerability in Adobe's Flash Player.

http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/2240034656/Adobe-warns-of-Flash-Player-zero-day-exploit-via-Word-document?asrc=EM_NLN_13648303&track=NL-102&ad=825684

I would think organizations would have their Office documents locked down due to the risk of malicious VBA, but who am I to think...