Microsoft February Security Updates

Martin — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:18:51 +0000

Microsoft has released a cumulative security update for Internet Explorer 7 and 8 that fixes several critical vulnerabilities in the web browser. It is recommended to update Internet Explorer as soon as possible to fix those vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities are rated critical for Internet Explorer versions running under Windows XP or Windows Vista and moderate for Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008. The article is mentioning downloads for Internet Explorer 8 beta but the linked article is not containing any. This seems to suggest that Internet Explorer 8 is affected by the vulnerability as well. This probably only affects pre release candidate builds of Internet Explorer 8.

The security update fixes the following two vulnerabilities: Uninitialized Memory Corruption Vulnerability and CSS Memory Corruption Vulnerability. Since it is a cumulative update it does apply all previous security updates for Internet Explorer on the computer system.

The easiest way to update affected systems is to use Microsoft Update which will download and apply the security updates automatically. The other possibility is to download the patch from Microsoft Download and apply it manually.

Microsoft has released three additional security bulletins:

Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Could Allow Remote Code Execution (959239)
Vulnerability in Microsoft SQL Server Could Allow Remote Code Execution (959420)
Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Visio Could Allow Remote Code Execution (957634)

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Microsoft February Security Updates

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