Microsoft dishes out six critical updates
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And a further five 'important' patches Microsoft released eleven patches yesterday, with six of them meriting a critical rating.â¦
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Microsoft Corp., world&#39;s largest software maker, published numerous patches to fix 21 flaws in its software applications yesterday.
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On Thursday, Microsoft gave I.T. administrators a sneak peak of next week&#39;s security updates. June&#39;s Patch Tuesday will see six sets of software patches. Four of those six will fix critical flaws in Windows and related software.
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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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Critical bug-fixes ship for Internet Explorer, DirectX, and Windows Media Format technology.
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Microsoft has released 10 software security patches for its products, including seven it deemed critical and that could allow remote attackers to take control of systems running the company&#39;s software.
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Microsoft Corp. plans to release 13 sets of security patches next Tuesday fixing critical vulnerabilities in a number of its products, including the company's new security software.
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In sharp contrast to last month&#39;s barrage of critical patches, Microsoft today offered up just one &quot;important&quot; fix for users to implement in its scheduled round of security updates for November.
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Microsoft issued seven patches on Tuesday as part of its monthly Patch Tuesday cycle, with three updates receiving the dreaded "critical" rating. While Redmond did not issue an update for the newly discovered Word vulnerabilities, the software giant said it is still working on a fix for the two critical flaws that have been the target of numerous hack attacks since last week.
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Microsoft on Tuesday issued 10 security advisories - seven of them critical - urging consumers and businesses to patch 21 new flaws in Windows software products.
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Ziff Davis - Microsoft has published a list of nearly 50 software programs that require tweaking in order to work with its most recent Windows update.
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Microsoft Corp. has released a major update to its server operating system designed to make the product more stable and secure.
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Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday plans to release five security updates targeting flaws in Windows, SharePoint, Visual Studio and Microsoft's instant messaging clients.
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PC Magazine - The update addresses at least nine high-risk vulnerabilities affecting Windows, Mac and Linux machines.
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Microsoft has made a number of changes to its Windows Live offerings, including pushing some services out of beta and adding new features to others.
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Microsoft plans to issue twelve patches next Tuesday, five of which deal with issues in its Office productivity suite.
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Eleven fixes for Windows, Office and even the .Net framework will make Microsoft's next Patch Tuesday collection, due on the 10th, a bumper crop.