Three critical updates for Microsoft systems in July 2007
11 July 2007
In its security bulletin summary for July 2007 Microsoft has published three updates for new critical vulnerabilities in its operating systems / applications as well as two important and one moderate.
Critical is Microsoft’s highest vulnerability rating.
A summary describing briefly the vulnerabilities is available from Microsoft’s Security Bulletin Summary for July 2007.
From this page you will also find links to more detailed information in Microsoft's Security Bulletins MS07-036 - MS07-041.
The critical updates address the following issues:
- Three reported vulnerabilities in Excel as well as other security issues. One of the reported vulnerabilities is publicly disclosed.
- One reported vulnerability in Windows Active Directory
- Three reported vulnerabilities in the .NET Framework.
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.
