Patch Tuesday omits critical Word fix
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Less than zero-day September's Patch Tuesday leaves users waiting for a fix to defend against a zero-day exploit in Microsoft Word, targeted by malware authors over recent days.â¦
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Six high priority updates, in all Microsoft is to issue four critical security fixes for this month's Patch Tuesday. Three of these affect either Windows Vista or Internet Explorer 7, which the software maker holds out as a paragon of its conversion to secure computing. In all, Microsoft will push six high-priority updates this Tuesday, the company announced today.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - With its monthly security updates due out Tuesday, Microsoft Corp. has a new problem to worry about: Word flaws. The software vendor on Sunday confirmed a report that criminals are e-mailing maliciously crafted Word attachments to victims. While these attacks are not widespread, they are dangerous because the attacker could run unauthorized software on the victim's computer if the attachment is opened. This is the second such Word attack to be confirmed by Microsoft in the past week. Last Tuesday, MicrosoftÂ warned of a similar Word flaw, saying that it was aware of "limited attacks attempting to use the vulnerability." Over the past year, hackers have increasingly looked to Microsoft's Office suite as a source of new bugs. Attacks based on flaws in Excel and PowerPoint have been reported as well. Exploits of this latest flaw appear to be even rarer than those based on last week's Word bug. "The vulnerability is being exploited on a very, very limited and targeted basis," Microsoft said in its alert. Neither problem is expected to be fixed in Tuesday's software patches, which will address flaws in Windows and Visual Studio. This second bug affects Word 2000, 2002, 2003 and the Word Viewer 2003, which are all vulnerable to last week's bug as well. The most recent version of the software, Word 2007, which was released to business users in late November, is not affected, Microsoft said. Â
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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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Just one day before Valentine's Day, Microsoft plans to release twelve patches fixing a variety of issues in Windows, Office, Visual Studio, and several other applications. At least five of these patches will be rated "critical."
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No critical patches for most Windows users Microsoft served comparatively modest fare for its monthly patch release on Tuesday, issuing only four security-related updates, only one of which carried its top severity rating of critical. It plugged a hole in a Windows 2000 component, while the other updates fixed vulnerabilities rated as important in instant messenger programs, Visual Studio .Net and Windows services for Unix found on several different versions of the Windows operating system.â¦
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Update to "critical" Internet Explorer patch repairs a serious security flaw introduced by the original version.
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Microsoft has released a critical update for Windows Service Pack 2, designed to resolve an installation problem with a piece of adware -- but it maintains that the update isn&#39;ta patch.
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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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Microsoft issued a patch for what it says is a &quot;critical&quot; security flaw in the way Windows programs handle JPEG images. According to a security bulletin accompanying the patch, the flaw
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Blog: Critical patches include those for Internet Explorer, Outlook Express and Windows Mail,  Win 32 API, and the Schannel Security Package.
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Blog: Microsoft revises one of its critical security bulletins from patch Tuesday, now including a fix for Microsoft Office 2004 for the Mac.
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Blog: Many of the patches address flaws within Quicktime for Java.
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After issuing seven patches as part of its monthly round of updates earlier this week, Microsoft recalled a fix for the Mac version of its Microsoft Office productivity suite. According to a posting on Microsoft's Security Response Center site, the updates were "accidentally published" before full testing was complete.
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Shire and Noven will fix an annoying foible of their ADHD patch.
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Microsoft Corp. has quietly released a &quot;critical&quot; Windows XP Service Pack 2 update to fix a serious flaw in the Windows Firewall utility.
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As part of its Patch Tuesday updates this week, Microsoft corrected 10 vulnerabilities in Windows and Office, 7 of which were deemed "critical." Three critical flaws were fixed in Excel that could allow for remote code execution, while one was fixed in Windows 2000 and Server 2003.