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
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