Microsoft will on Tuesday evening, Norwegian time, with six security updates for its products. It is this time the majority of Windows and Office products that are affected.
Windows comes to the total of four security patches, of which three are characterized by Microsoft as critical. None of the four updates that apply to all the Windows variants that are still supported by Microsoft. One only Windows 2000, but no one comes to Windows 7
The critical updates remove vulnerabilities that allow for remote execution of arbitrary code. All require a restart of the machine.
To the Office from the two patches that Microsoft characterizes as "important." This applies to Office XP and later, as well as Office 2004 for Mac and above. In addition, the affected Office Excel Viewer and Word Viewer.
Also these security patches eliminates vulnerabilities that allow for remote execution of arbitrary code.
According to InformationWeek.com shall in all be 15 vulnerabilities that are removed in this round. In October, Microsoft pruned away 34 different vulnerabilities in the company's software.
Also updates to the Office may require a restart of the machine.
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