Microsoft Patches 19 Flaws, 6 in Vista

Cheesy Balogna writes "Microsoft has just released seven advisories — all rated critical — with patches for at least 19 vulnerabilities affecting the Windows operating system, the widely deployed Office productivity suite and the dominant Internet Explorer browser. Six of the 19 vulnerabilities affect Windows Vista. 'There are patches for 7 different vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution attacks against Word, Excel and Office. Users of Microsoft Exchange are also urged to pay attention to one of the critical bulletins, which cover 4 different flaws. A cumulative IE update addresses six potentially dangerous bugs. There are the six that apply to IE 7 on Windows Vista. The last bulletin in this month's batch apples to CAPICOM (Cryptographic API Component Object Model) and could also put users at risk of complete system hijack attacks.'"

Comments

Most secure windows ever!

[A beautiful mind]

Hm...I guess they leveraged the active synergies to stop the probes but the active hardening failed on the SuperHyperVista3000 edition.

Oh wait, you did expect real security instead of buzzwords?

Re:Most secure windows ever!

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually I expect a bunch of monday morning quarterbacking from a horde of slashdot users who should be working. Ah, the day after patch tuesday.

Re:Most secure windows ever!

[BrewedInTexas]

Actually I expect a bunch of monday morning quarterbacking from a horde of slashdot users who should be working. Ah, the day after patch tuesday.

You've got some serious issues with the days of the week.

Re:Linux patches?

[QuickFox]

But then comes the trolls that point out that it was fixed in a matter of hours and not weeks or months. Don't blame it on the trolls, they only report it here. It's the open-source developers' fault. Why can't they wait for some time and give Microsoft a chance?

Re:Linux patches?

[Lord_Slepnir]

You have listed my fondest dream: To be part of an abusive monopoly that replaced the abusive monopoly that I hated when I was a young college student....*sigh*

dominant Internet Explorer.. my ass

[gd23ka]

Here, this is probably the article you had in mind:

"Microsoft has just released seven dominance advisories -- all rated critical -- with dominance enhancements for at least 19 dominance threats affecting the world's premier and most popular Windows(R) operating system, the widely deployed superior Office productivity suite and the most dominant Internet Explorer browser. Six of the 19 dominance threats affect Microsoft's latest and most exciting offering, the Windows Vista Operating System. 'There are dominance enhancements for 7 different domination points that could otherwise lead to unplanned code execution in the most popular word processor of all times Word, the most powerful spreadsheet application Excel and of course spectacular Office. Users of Microsoft Exchange the kick-ass central hub of Information Technology are also urged to pay attention to all of the critical bulletins, which cover 4 different dominance features. A cumulative IE dominance update addresses six potentially cool features. There are the six that apply to the dominant IE 7 on the hugely popular Windows Vista Operating System. The last bulletin in this month's batch apples to the widely acclaimed CAPICOM (Cryptographic API Component Object Model) and could also put users at risk of complete system dominance violations.'"

Re:Linux patches?

[QuickFox]

While it's not exactly a security problem What makes you think it's not about security? If the ethernet driver locks up nobody can hack you.

Re:Linux patches?

[metallic]

I think they call that RHEL 5.

That's the thing about revolution: it revolves!

[symbolset]

So you work for the New AT&T then?