Two critical updates for Microsoft systems in February 2009
11 February 2009
In its security bulletin summary for February 2009 Microsoft has published two updates for critical vulnerabilities in its operating systems / applications.
Critical is Microsoft’s highest vulnerability rating.
A summary describing briefly the vulnerabilities is available from Microsoft’s Security Bulletin Summary for February 2009.
From this page you will also find links to more detailed information in Microsoft's Security Bulletins MS09-002 - MS09-005.
The critical update addresses the following issues:
- Two privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Two privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server
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.