One new critical vulnerability in Microsoft applications
14 December 2005
In its security bulletin summary for December 2005 Microsoft reports new vulnerabilities in its operating systems and other applications. One of the updates that is available for download is defined as critical, and fixes issues that could allow remote code execution. This update is defined as critical.
One of the vulnerabilites discussed is also described in Norman's Security advisory 22 November 2005.
Critical is Microsoft’s highest vulnerability rating.
A summary describing briefly the vulnerabilities is available from Microsoft’s Security Bulletin Summary for December 2005.
From this page you will also find links to more detailed information in Microsofts Security Bulletins MS05-54 (critical vulnerabilities) and MS05-55 (important vulnerabilities).
Updates that fixes the vulnerabilitiy is available from Windows update mechanism for those systems that support this. Other operating systems supported by Microsoft may download updates from http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com.
Norman advices all affected users to download the security update as soon as possible, to be protected from potential exploits.
Per Olav Førland
