7 critical flaws patched on Patch Tuesday

May Security Bulletin covers wide range of vulnerabilities.

Microsoft

‘s latest ‘Patch Tuesday’ security bulletin included fixes for seven vulnerabilities, all rated ‘Critical’ and allowing remote access to affected systems, which affect most of the company’s major products.

The May release, unveiled yesterday, includes fixes for long-standing bugs in

Excel

spreadsheet software, word processor

Word

, the

Office

suite as a whole, the

Internet Explorer

browser, the

Exchange

mail server and the

CAPICOM

cryptography tool, as well as covering the well-publicised RPC hole in the

Microsoft DNS Server

service, first

unveiled

shortly after the last Patch Tuesday release and rapidly implemented into a

worm

.

Full details of the patches and the flaws they are designed to fix are in the security bulletin,

here

.

Posted on 09 May 2007 by

Virus Bulletin