Users advised to patch ASAP.
Microsoft
is set to release an emergency out-of-band patch for the vulnerability in its
Internet Explorer
browser
reported
last week.
Attacks via the vulnerability have been shown to work on a wide range of
Windows
and
IE
variants, and have been widely seeded to both malicious websites and legitimate sites that have been compromised to display malicious content. As a result,
Microsoft
is releasing this patch outside of its normal monthly cycle of updates – the next scheduled release of which will not be until the second Tuesday in January.
The advance notification of the patch release can be found
here
. The advance notification will subsequently be replaced with a revised December bulletin containing both the out-of-band security bulletin and the security bulletins already released in
December’s ‘Patch Tuesday’
cycle.
Updates can be received through the Microsoft Update and Windows Update Services components or downloaded directly from the
Microsoft
site. Users are urged to ensure the updates are in place as soon as possible.
Posted on 17 December 2008 by
Virus Bulletin
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