Critical remote execution and hijack holes closed.
Microsoft
‘s monthly ‘Patch Tuesday’ security bulletin includes nine separate bulletins this month, covering a total of 14 vulnerabilities in the
Windows
operating system and other
Microsoft
software, including three flaws in the
Internet Explorer
browser and one in the
Excel
spreadsheet software.
Other vulnerabilities marked at the most serious ‘critical’ level include issues with
XML Core Services
,
OLE
automation,
GDI
and a newly spotted flaw in
VML
, following another highly serious incident in the same area some months ago.
Less severe problems were patched in
Windows Media Player
,
Virtual PC
/
Virtual Server
and the
Gadgets
in
Windows Vista
. A summary of all the patches released is
here
.
Posted on 17 August 2007 by
Virus Bulletin
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