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Microsoft Patches 19 Flaws, 6 in Vista

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the many-patches-makes-os-work dept.

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.'"

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  1. Most secure windows ever! by A+beautiful+mind · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

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    1. Re:Most secure windows ever! by BrewedInTexas · · Score: 5, Funny

      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.
  2. Re:Linux patches? by QuickFox · · Score: 4, Funny

    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?
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  3. Re:Linux patches? by Lord_Slepnir · · Score: 4, Funny

    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*

  4. Re:Linux patches? by QuickFox · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.
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  5. Re:Linux patches? by metallic · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think they call that RHEL 5.

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