Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Microsoft patch Tuesday Explorer, Office and Windows

With its monthly security update, Microsoft will on Tuesday 34 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer, Office and SharePoint through ten security bulletins. Of these, three have been rated by Microsoft as "critical", the highest level within the range of danger of the company.

The remaining seven bulletins are, as classified by Microsoft, "important", the next level in your system vulnerability assessment. As for the versions of IE, Office, Windows and SharePoint affected include Windows 7, Windows Vista SP2, Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows 2000 SP 4, Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8, Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Office 2007 Microsoft Office 2008 Mac and Microsoft Office SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1, plus two versions of the server operating system (Microsoft Server 2003 SP2 and Windows Server 2008 SP2).

One of the patches for IE solved a problem to get illegally exploitable user information. With respect to the hole in SharePoint, it is a profitable decision for the achievement of administrative privileges on the affected system. Some vulnerabilities resolved in this update also allow remote code execution on the victim machine.

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