Six critical updates for Microsoft systems in June 2009
10 June 2009
In its security bulletin summary for June 2009 Microsoft has published six updates for critical vulnerabilities in its operating systems / applications, as well as three 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 June 2009.
From this page you will also find links to more detailed information in Microsoft's Security Bulletins MS09-018 - MS09-027.
The critical update addresses the following issues:
- Two privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Active Directory.
- Two privately reported vulnerabilities in Windows Print Spooler.
- One publicly disclosed and two privately reported vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer.
- Two privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Word.
- Several privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Excel
- Two privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Works Converters.
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.