Three new critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft applications
15 June 2005
In its security bulletin summary for June 2005 Microsoft reports ten new vulnerabilities in its operating systems and programs. Three of these vulnerabilities are defined as critical, and could all allow remote code execution and complete control of affected systems.
Critical is Microsoft's highest vulnerability rating.
A summary describing briefly these vulnerabilities is available from Microsoft's Security Bulletin Summary for June 2005.
From this page you will also find links to more detailed information in Microsofts Security Bulletins MS05-25 - MS05-27 (Critical issues), MS05-28 - MS05-31 (Important issues) and MS05-32 - MS05-34 (Moderate issues) and
Updates that fixes the vulnerabilities are 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 updates as soon as possible, to be protected from potential exploits.
Per Olav Førland
