Microsoft, a major patch for Internet Explorer
With the traditional monthly feature, Microsoft has released 9 patches to fix 21 vulnerabilities in various products.
As anticipated by the previous Friday to the release of the monthly security updates, Microsoft advance notification, a few hours ago Microsoft has released 9 bulletins that address 21 vulnerabilities in various products of the company in Redmond. The users, in particular, must as soon as possible to install the patch that closes a serious bug in versions 7, 8 and 9 of Internet Explorer.
Four of the nine patches were classified as critical, so an attacker can exploit these vulnerabilities to execute code remotely. This is precisely the risk if you run with the latest versions of Internet Explorer, for which Microsoft has released a cumulative patch. The bulletin MS12-20 bug fixes, therefore, which can be exploited if the user is persuaded to visit a web site created for that purpose. The critical update MS12-23 vulnerability discovered in a rather close C Runtime Library. In this case, the user’s PC can be attached through a media file downloaded from a site or an attachment to an e-mail message.
The other two critical bulletins concern vulnerabilities are in Windows (all versions of Windows XP SP3 to Windows 7 SP1), Silverlight and .NET framework. Although these patches block the execution of arbitrary code, when you visit a web site or opened an infected file.
The remaining five bulletins, classified as a major concern for even Windows and Office productivity suite. The vulnerabilities addressed are related to drivers, the Indeo video codec, the color profiles, to Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Visio Viewer 2010. The patch installation will happen automatically if you enabled this option on, or manually via Windows Update from Control Panel.
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