Four flaws fixed in minimal security update.
Microsoft
‘s monthly ‘Patch Tuesday’ release of security updates for
Windows
and other software has been fairly quiet this month – with four patches released, only one of which is labelled ‘Critical’.
The most serious issue is a vulnerability in the
Microsoft Agent
usability tool, which could be exploited to gain control of a system from a remote source. The other fixes, marked ‘Important’, cover
Crystal Reports
,
Services for UNIX
and
MSN Messenger
software.
Details of the latest patch release are in the
Microsoft Security Bulletin
,
here
. A
McAfee
blog entry carries a graph of updates released in recent years, showing a trend of small numbers of patches in September followed by a sizeable increase in the following months,
here
.
Posted on 12 September 2007 by
Virus Bulletin
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