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Microsoft dishes out six critical updates
Wednesday, February 13 2008
by Jonathan Farrelly


Microsoft released eleven patches on Tuesday, with six of
them meriting a critical rating.

The critical updates affect the WebDAV Mini-Redirector,
Object Linking and Embedding Automation, Microsoft Word,
Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office 2000, XP and 2003, and
Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac. 



They all focus on flaws in the programs that could allow
remote code execution. Affected systems are those running
Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003



The remaining patches, deemed merely "important", address
issues in Active Directory, Transmission Control
Protocol/Internet Protocol processing, Internet Information
Services, and Microsoft Works 8.0 and Suite 2005. The
vulnerabilities could allow denial of service, remote code
execution, or in one case grant an attacker full control of
an affected system.



Microsoft's February patch summary can be found href="http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-feb.mspx">here.



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