Critical IE patch issued
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MICROSOFT has issued an out-of-schedule critical patch for its Internet Explorer web browser, plugging a security hole that could allow a hacker to take control of a PC.
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InfoWorld - Microsoft has quietly released a patch aimed at improving the performance of Internet Explorer 7&#39;s phishing filter ahead of the company&#39;s regular patching schedule, which occurs on the second Tuesday of every month.
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Updated: A &quot;cumulative security update&quot; plugs eight holes in the Internet Explorer browser, while other patches address &quot;critical&quot; vulnerabilities in the Windows shell, in SMTP and elsewhere.
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Microsoft posted a patch on Tuesday afternoon for Internet Security &amp; Acceleration Server 2000 and Proxy Server 2.0. The patch fixed a spoofing vulnerability that Microsoft rated an &quot;important&quot; problem.
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Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O released on Tuesday a patch for its latest &quot;critical&quot; rated security flaw affecting its Windows, Office and developer tools software programs.
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Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O released on  Tuesday a patch for its latest "critical" rated security flaw  affecting its Windows, Office and developer tools software  programs.
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Unload update stars in weekend patch release Firefox users need to update their browser software following the discovery of multiple vulnerabilities.â¦
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Mozilla Foundation says patch issued in mid-December introduced vulnerability to browser and application suite.
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(InfoWorld) - A new update for the Firefox browser fixes an unusual vulnerability that could cause malicious code to run if the browser is launched by Microsoft's Internet Explorer. The critical vulnerability involves Internet Explorer's ability to launch other applications such as Excel or Firefox after a user clicks on a specially written link in a Web page. Explorer does not properly check the syntax of the link, which could allow a malicious link to attack Firefox if launched, according to Mozilla, the open source project that develops Firefox. Microsoft said itÂ didn't feel it was an issue for Explorer. Either way, Firefox's 2.0.0.5 release fixes the problem by now validating incoming data. The update will automatically be pushed out to Firefox 2.0 users via the built-in update system, Mozilla said in an advisory. The update also fixes seven other vulnerabilities, two of which are considered "critical" by Mozilla. One problem, labelled 2007-18, is a memory corruption problem that could cause arbitrary code to run on a machine. The other, 2007-21, could also allow arbitrary code to run.
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Blog: Patches include the Firefox portion of the IE-Firefox flaw identified last week.
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InfoWorld - Microsoft has offered a technical workaround for Internet Explorer users who have found their browsers crashing after installing a recent set of security patches.
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(InfoWorld) - Microsoft Corp. has rolled out its monthly security updates for December, patching critical flaws in Internet Explorer, Windows Media Format, and the Visual Studio 2005 development software. The seven security patches address 11 bugs, including two in the Windows Media Player software. However, no fixes were provided for two Microsoft Word flaws that have been used in a small number of attacks during the past week. Microsoft had said it would release only six patches on Tuesday, but the company added the Windows Media Format update at the last minute, after reports of attacks based on this vulnerability began surfacing. The Windows Media Format is used by Microsoft's Windows Media Player software. In late November, security vendors warned that a buffer overflow error could occur when the Windows Media Player processed ".asx" (Advanced Stream Redirector) media files, meaning that users would first need to be tricked into opening a malicious media file for the attack to work. In its update Tuesday, Microsoft also patched a similar bug in the way the media player processes ".asf" (Advanced Systems Format) files. The Internet Explorer patch fixes four bugs. It is also rated critical, and is noteworthy because some of these bugs will probably begin to be exploited by hackers by week's end, said Gunter Ollmann, director of IBM Corp.'s Internet Security System's X-Force threat analysis service. Enterprise administrators should also pay close attention to an SNMP (Simple Network Monitoring Protocol) patch issued Tuesday, Ollmann said. Microsoft has rated this patch as "important," rather than critical because SNMP is normally blocked at the firewall and turned off by default on Windows systems. However, it is widely deployed as part of the network monitoring infrastructure in the enterprise, and is often used on critical servers, Ollmann said. Ollmann believes this SNMP patch is the "most important" update for enterprise customers. "Since the service is widely deployed in the enterprise and since it's commonly deployed on servers, we think this would be an important attack vector for enterprises," he said. The remaining updates include a "critical" fix for Visual Studio 2005, and "important" updates for Windows and Outlook Express, Microsoft said. Microsoft defines "critical" flaws as bugs that could allow the propagation of an Internet worm without any action on the part of the victim. The company's next set of security updates are due Jan. 9.
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Updated browser that patches the problems is now available for download.
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Software update patches bug in wireless drivers that left systems vulnerable.
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Sample code that exploits a yet-to-be-fixed Windows flaw is circulating. Microsoft plans to deal with it on the next Patch Tuesday.
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Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O on Tuesday   released a security patch to fix a "critical" hole in its   Internet Explorer Web browser that the world's biggest software   maker said could allow an attacker to take control of a user's   computer.
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