Two new critical vulnerabilites in Microsoft systems
10 May 2006
In its security bulletin summary for May 2006 Microsoft reports two new critical vulnerability in its operating systems / applications, as well as one moderate vulnerabilitiy. The critical vulnerabilites are in Microsoft Exchange and in Macromedia Flash Player from Adobe (included in Windows versions).
Critical is Microsoft’s highest vulnerability rating.
A summary describing briefly the vulnerabilities is available from Microsoft’s Security Bulletin Summary for May 2006.
From this page you will also find links to more detailed information in Microsoft's Security Bulletins MS06-019 and MS06-020 (critical), and MS06-018 (moderate)
Updates that fixes the vulnerabilities are available from Windows automatic update mechanism for systems that support this. Alternatively, one 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.
