XP SP3 and Vista SP1 Critical Security Patches
The latest Critical security patches for Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Vista Service Pack 1 are available from Microsoft.
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13.8.2008 Microsoft Patches Critical Vista SP1 and XP SP3 Vulnerabilities
It's patching time yet again for Microsoft, as the software giant made available no less than eight security bulletins on December 9, 2008, designed to plug vulnerabilities in a range of products including Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3.
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10.12.2008 Microsoft to release four critical patches
Microsoft announced plans Thursday to issue four "critical" security bulletins next week that address vulnerabilities in its Windows Mail, Internet Explorer and Windows XP.
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8.6.2007 No Critical Patches for Vista SP2
Come June 9, 2009, Microsoft plans to release no less than 10 security bulletins for various supported releases of Internet Explorer, Windows client and server operating systems and the Office System.
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5.6.2009 Critical MS Office Patches Coming
It is likely that this batch of patches will finally provide cover for well-known—and already exploited—vulnerabilities in Microsoft Excel.
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7.3.2008 Next "Patch Tuesday" to include 4 Critical Patches
For this month’s “Patch Tuesday” (September 9th) Microsoft is planning to release 4 critical updates.
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5.9.2008 Microsoft patches critical Windows kernel flaw
Microsoft patched critical vulnerabilities in the Windows kernel that could be remotely exploited by an attacker to gain control of a computer. In all three bulletins patching eight Windows flaws were released Tuesday as part of Microsoft's monthly patching cycle.
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11.3.2009 Critical Vista, IE 7 patches highlight MS security updates
This month’s batch of patches from Microsoft includes six bulletins covering at least 15 vulnerabilities, including several critical code execution holes in Windows Vista and Internet Explorer 7.
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13.6.2007 September Critical Security Bulletins Advance Notification, 5 patches
This is an advance notification of five security bulletins that Microsoft is intending to release on September 11, 2007.
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6.9.2007 Tuesday Microsoft will release 2 Windows patches, 1 Exchange patch, some critical
Security Updates - One Microsoft Security Bulletin affecting Microsoft Exchange. The highest Maximum Severity rating for this is Critical. These updates may require a restart. These updates will be detectable using the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer.
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5.5.2006 Microsoft delivers 11 patches, 6 critical; Excel flaw left unpatched
Microsoft delivered 11 patches on Tuesday addressing 17 vulnerabilities. Six updates fix critical flaws and five address important vulnerabilities, but an already exploited Excel zero day was left unpatched.
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12.2.2008 Windows 7 RTM Safe from Vista and XP Critical Vulnerabilities
When it launched Windows Vista back in January 2007, Microsoft made sure to emphasize added security as part of the Wow.
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12.8.2009 Microsoft patched critical Windows bug in XP SP3 early
The appearance and disappearance of a Windows XP installation snafu indicates that Microsoft patched a critical vulnerability in XP's still-unfinished Service Pack 3 (SP3) weeks before it fixed any other version of Windows.
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15.4.2008 Critical Security Patch for Windows XP Service Pack 3 Final
Windows XP SP3 was barely out the door, when Microsoft rushed to issue the first critical patch for the service pack. Concomitantly with the general
availability of the last service pack for XP, Microsoft dropped the first critical security update designed to patch Internet Explorer 7 running on XP SP3 RTM Build 5512.
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8.5.2008 9 Critical Errors in Installation of XP SP3 RTM Build 5512
Users looking to Service Pack 3 for Windows XP, as Service Pack 2's second coming and the perfect reason to avoid Windows Vista SP1, might need to reconsider their plans.
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10.5.2008 Vista SP2 and XP SP3 June 2009 Patches ISO Image Available
This month’s release addresses 31 total vulnerabilities with 15 rated as “1” on our Exploitability Index, meaning there is a high likelihood that reliable exploit code may be developed in the next 30 days,” stated Jerry Bryant, Sr. security program manager lead.
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12.6.2009 XP SP3 and Vista SP1: DirectX 9 and DirectX 10 Patches Updated
Two security bulletins, from December 2007 and from June 2008 respectively, affecting the DirectX components of a wide range of Windows operating systems including Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3, have been updated.
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17.7.2008 New Non-Critical Windows Updates are Available
KB904942 - Install this update to resolve HTTP authentication issues in Windows-based systems that do not appear until Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 is installed.
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1.3.2006 Critical Office update on the way
Microsoft plans to release a "critical" security update for Office next week, one of three bulletins it will distribute as part of its monthly patch cycle.
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11.9.2006 Critical IE Graphics Flaw Resurfaces
Plus: More Office holes, and a major Adobe problem that affects all browsers.
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22.2.2007 Windows 7 Beta Critical to Compatibility
In another example of the fact that Windows 7 will be everything that Windows Vista was not, Microsoft indicated a strong commitment to ensure a high level of compatibility for the next iteration of the Windows client from the get go.
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30.5.2008 Two Unofficial IE Patches Block Attacks
eWeek reports that two well-respected Internet security companies (eEye and Determina) have released unofficial patches to correct the vulnerability being exploited to load spyware, bots and Trojan downloaders on Windows machines.
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29.3.2006 Third-party Microsoft patches could get new life
It has been nearly three years since Microsoft moved to a monthly patch release schedule as a way to rein in some of the chaos that had begun to engulf its vulnerability reporting and repair efforts.
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1.8.2006 Microsoft Patches 23 Vulnerabilities
As part of its monthly security update cycle, Microsoft on Tuesday released a dozen security bulletins. Nine of them are tagged critical, the company's highest severity rating. The alerts give details of 20 flaws in Windows and three in Office, all of which Microsoft has now fixed.
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9.8.2006 Microsoft pulls four planned patches
Microsoft has pulled four bulletins from its announced list of Patch Tuesday fixes, but did not specify why it was backpedaling on the security releases.
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6.1.2007 Microsoft preps four Office patches
Microsoft is planning at least four security updates next week in its Patch Tuesday release for March.
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11.3.2008 Microsoft to supply ALL patches to All users
It’s time for Microsoft’s policy of tying the availability of Windows Updates to Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) validation to end.
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2.4.2009 6 patches for July patch Tuesday
Microsoft on Tuesday will issue six security bulletins for patch Tuesday reports PC Magazine.
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11.7.2009 September 2009 Security Patches
This month MS released five critical bulletins to address vulnerabilities in Windows and protect customers from two types of threats.
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9.9.2009 Hackers publish code for critical IE bug
Security experts are warning Internet users to be careful where they click, thanks to a nasty unpatched bug in the way Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer browser handles the JavaScript computer language. The bug is of particular concern because security researchers in the U.K. have now published "proof of concept" code showing how hackers could exploit the problem and possibly take over a Windows system.
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22.11.2005Seven critical Windows patches next Tuesday, including to Media Player
Microsoft's regular pre-briefing on monthly security issues contained some dire news, including patches for a reportedly "Critical"
vulnerability affecting Windows Media Player for XP, Vista, and Windows Server 2008...
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09.08.2008Microsoft Issues 5 Critical Patches
November's Patch Tuesday has
brought with it five
"critical" patches
correcting 11 security
vulnerabilities, along with an
"important" fix for
two vulnerabilities related to
Novell's NetWare. Among the
list of patches is one for a
highly publicized flaw in
Microsoft's XML Core Services
component...
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15.11.2006Microsoft Patches 28 Security Flaws
Microsoft scaled back its
October patch event by one on
Tuesday, electing to release
ten patches. Five patches are
intended for Windows, the
highest rating of those being
critical; four for Office,
with the highest rating also
being critical; and one
moderate patch for the .NET
framework...
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11.10.2006Microsoft Fixes Zero-Day Word Flaws
Microsoft on Tuesday released
a bevy of patches, including
three critical patches for the
Microsoft Windows operating
system, two for Office, and a
critical patch for its
antivirus and anti-malware
software products...
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14.02.20078 Critical Flaws Patched by
Microsoft
Microsoft has released its
super-sized Patch Tuesday,
heavy on "critical"
patches, with eight rated as
such. Four other patches
rounded out the list of
updates, with three patches
rated "important" and
one rated "moderate."..
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14.06.2006Microsoft Remedies 14 Flaws in Nine Patches
Microsoft fixed a total of 14
flaws across 9 patches on
Tuesday, with six of those
patches reaching critical
status. While the number of
patches is far from the
Redmond company's record,
this month could prove
difficult for administrators...
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15.08.2007Five Patches On Tap for Tuesday
By recent standards, September's Patch Tuesday will be mild, with only five patches and one being rated "critical." In the past several
months, Microsoft has dealt with more critical errors in its products with four in June, three in July, and six in August...
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07.09.200710 Windows, 2 Office Patches
Issued
Microsoft on Tuesday issued
twelve security bulletins,
including 7 "critical"
patches for Windows and 2
critical updates for Office.
Three other
"important" patches
were released for Windows. All
told, Microsoft fixed over 20
vulnerabilities in the two
products...
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09.08.2006Seven Patches Coming From Microsoft
Microsoft expects to release seven security patches with four "Critical" and three "Important" bulletins as part of its upcoming Patch Tuesday
release.
The critical patches affect Windows Server Service Packs for 2000 and 2003 versions as well as Internet Explorer,
versions 5 through 7 and Outlook Express for Windows 2000, 2003 and Windows XP.
The common thread of the four "critical"
patches is their remote code execution (RCE) implications, a risk consideration that has been pretty consistent over the last few patch release
announcements. Microsoft suggests using Baseline Security Analyzer to flesh out any potential bugs or problems.
Meanwhile, the
three "important" issues are more varied in nature, with two bulletins affecting almost all Windows OS and server versions, including multiple
service pack releases of Windows 2000 and 2003, XP and Vista. A third patch is related to Windows SharePoint Services.
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05.10.2007Microsoft to Issue 7 Security
Patches
Microsoft plans to release 7
security bulletins as part of
its July 11 Patch Tuesday, the
company said Thursday. Four of
the updates are for Windows,
with the most severe being
rated as "critical."
Three other patches are
directed at Office, also with
a maximum severity of
"critical."..
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07.07.2006F-Secure Patches Critical
AntiVirus Flaw
Security firm F-Secure has
issued patches for critical
flaws in 18 of its antivirus
products that fix a
vulnerability in the scanning
of RAR and ZIP archives for
malicious code. Both Windows
and Linux based tools are
affected, and F-Secure
recommends installing the fix
immediately...
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20.01.2006Three critical patches on tap from Microsoft
Next Tuesday's regular monthly distribution of security patches will include three for DirectX, Windows Media, and Internet Explorer...
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07.12.2007Exchange, Windows Fixes on Tap
Microsoft will issue three
patches as part of its monthly
Patch Tuesday next week, of
which at least two have been
rated "critical," the
company said. It is likely
that these patches would fix
various code execution flaws.
Two of the patches will be for
Windows, with another for
Exchange...
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05.05.2006Exploits hot on the heels of Microsoft's patches
Exploits appeared
within hours for two of the
bugs that Microsoft Corp.
fixed yesterday.
Microsoft's June set of
security updates patched 15
separate vulnerabilities, nine
of them labeled "critical,"
the company's most serious
threat rating. Exploit code
for two of the bugs -- one in
Internet Explorer (IE), the
other in Windows XP, Windows
2000 and Windows Server 2003
-- have been posted to the
Bugtraq and Full-disclosure
mailing lists by researchers.
A. Micalizzi went
public with a pair of exploits
-- one successful against
Windows 2000, the other
against Windows XP -- that
leverage one of the six IE
bugs patched yesterday. A bug
-- actually two because both
the ActiveListen and
ActiveVoice ActiveX controls
are flawed -- was tagged
"critical" in IE6 on Windows
2000 and Windows XP SP2, and
"critical" in IE7 on both XP
SP2 and Windows Vista.
ActiveListen and ActiveVoice
provide speech processing and
text-to-speech to the browser.
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14.06.2007Skype Patches Critical Flaws
in Its Software
'Critical bugs' trigger
advice to upgrade immediately...
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26.10.20053rd Party Patches Critical Windows Flaw
Not content to wait for
Microsoft to remedy the issue,
independent security firm eEye
released a temporary patch for
a critical flaw affecting
Windows that can lead to a
crash-restart-crash loop. But
Microsoft does not recommend
such third-party patches...
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31.03.2007Microsoft: Critical MS Office Patches Coming
It is likely that this batch of patches will finally provide cover for well-known—and already exploited—vulnerabilities in Microsoft
Excel. Microsoft plans to release four security bulletins March 11 to cover a number of remote code execution vulnerabilities affecting the Microsoft
Office productivity suite. All four bulletins will be rated "critical," Microsoft's highest severity rating.
According to the
software vendor's advance notice mechanism, three of the high-priority bulletins will cover holes in Microsoft Office while the fourth will deal
with issues in Microsoft Office Web Components. Affected software includes Microsoft Office 2000, Microsoft Office XP, Microsoft Office 2003,
Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office Outlook and Microsoft Office for Mac.
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07.03.2008Fewer patches != safer OS
Urs P. Küderli: Does one OS having fewer security patches than another operating system mean that the OS with the fewer patches is the safest OS?
You know, Im not sold on that concept.
As we near the first anniversary of the consumer launch of Windows Vista well be seeing
pundits all over the media taking a look back at the Vistas first year. One aspect of Vista that some will undoubtedly be looking at is patches and
how many have been issued for Vista (in fact, my blogging colleague Ed Botts already done this). Many will interpret the fact that XP has had more
patches rated critical and important than Vista as an indication that Vista is safer than XP (in fact, this is the conclusion that Ed himself came
to).
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17.12.2007Patch Tuesday: Five critical for August 2009
Microsoft has issued an advanced security bulletin for August 2009 with five of the nine bulletins marked as "critical" and four are labelled as
"important". These five critical patches are to patch remote code execution and the other four fix elevation of privileges and Denial of Service
(DoS), where a hacker (or hackers) could allow Internet worms inside your computer without the use of user interaction. The nine patches being
released on Tuesday will fix flaws in a number of Microsoft products.
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08.08.2009Microsoft to issue critical patch for Office on May 12
Microsoft has issues a statement saying they will issue a "critical" patch this coming Tuesday to fix a flaw in Microsoft Office PowerPoint. The
single update is oddly timed, after Microsoft released eight patches to fix 23 vulnerabilities only days ago. Critical patches are the highest rating
Microsoft gives to updates, issuing an urgent warning to install the needed fix. The outstanding patch has been sitting idly by for almost a month
until questions were raised on why it was missed during the latest patches. The vulnerability was reported almost a month ago, back on April 2, in
Microsoft's Office PowerPoint can be triggered using rigged presentation files.
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