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Microsoft Goes Light On Latest Patches
David Utter
Staff Writer
2007-09-12
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Only one Critical issue emerged with this month's security bulletin from Microsoft, along with three other Issues rated Important.
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The latest round of patches as summarized by Microsoft has been arriving through the update processes of millions of machines. Compared to previous months, September proved a light month for these fixes.
Only one of the four updates announced by the company addressed an issue they rated as Critical. A vulnerability in Microsoft Agent could have permitted remote code execution if exploited.
Other remote code execution problems existed with two of the three updates rated Important. Fixes for MSN Messenger & Windows Live Messenger, and for Crystal Reports for Visual Studio, shut down these publicly disclosed "zero-day" vulnerabilities.
A fourth issue related to Windows Services for Unix could have permitted privilege elevation on a vulnerable system. Running certain setuid binary files would allow this to happen before the fix.
Microsoft's next scheduled patch release will be October 9th.
About the Author:
David Utter is a business and technology writer for SecurityProNews and WebProNews.
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