Hotfixes for Word 2007 and Word 2010 have been released which takes care of an Outlook issue where the file extension of attachments which are dragged & dropped into a new message to duplicate.
This issue had been introduced in Hotfix KB2687259 for Word 2007 and KB2687296 for Word 2010 and was also included in Security Update KB2687315 for Word 2007 and KB2553488 for Word.
A new Hotfix for both versions of Word have been released which takes care of this issue.
Download: KB2687537 for Word 2007
Download: KB2687556 for Word 2010
Obtaining the hotfixes
These are a Hotfixes and not regular updates. You can request them via their KB article page.