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It issued patches for vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, Windows, FrontPage, and Office, with three of the five flaws rated as "critical," its highest-ranking assessment.
Microsoft has issued patches for vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, Windows, FrontPage, and Office in the second of its now-monthly rollouts of fixes.
Of the five flaws, Microsoft rated three as "critical," its highest-ranking threat assessment. Several let attackers remotely execute code on compromised machines.
In addition, exploit code and proof-of-concept code--which is typically used to build exploits--are circulating on the Internet for all three critical vulnerabilities, according to security firms such as Symantec, which has released alerts to users of its global DeepSight threat-assessment network.
"Yes, there are known exploits," confirmed Mark Miller, the manager of Microsoft's security-response team. "We've seen several posted on public Web sites and we're investigating them."
*note* So in the mean time kids... be smart and install Linux or FreeBSD.
Posted by Muddy at November 12, 2003 10:04 PM | TrackBack