Three new critical vulnerabilites in Microsoft systems
11 January 2006
In its security bulletin summary for January 2006 Microsoft reports three new critical vulnerabilites in its operating systems / applications.
One of these critical vulnerabilities is extensively discussed in Norman's Security Advisory published (first time) 28 December 2005.
Critical is Microsoft’s highest vulnerability rating.
A summary describing briefly the vulnerabilities is available from Microsoft’s Security Bulletin Summary for January 2006.
From this page you will also find links to more detailed information in Microsoft's Security Bulletins MS06-01-MS06-03.
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.
