In its security bulletin summary for August 2009 Microsoft has published five updates for critical vulnerabilities in its operating systems / applications, as well as four important.
Critical is Microsoft’s highest vulnerability rating.
A summary describing briefly the vulnerabilities is available from Microsoft’s Security Bulletin Summary for August 2009.
From this page you will also find links to more detailed information in Microsoft's Security Bulletins MS09-036 - MS09-044.
The critical update addresses the following issues:
- Several privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Web Components.
- Two privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection,
- Two privately reported vulnerabilities in Windows Internet Name Service (WINS).
- Two privately reported vulnerabilities in Windows Media file processing.
- Several privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Active Template Library (ATL).
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.
