http://gcn.com/articles/2009/04/15/microsoft-april-security-patch.aspx By Jabulani Leffall GCN.com April 15, 2009 Microsoft has rolled out eight fixes in its monthly security release that addressing 23 vulnerabilities. The volume of security bulletins in the April patch marks this release as another historic Patch Tuesday event. Five items are deemed "critical" and two are labeled "important." Finally, Microsoft rounded out the slate with a "moderate" fix. "Since Microsoft started providing exploitability information, this is the first time we've seen as many six vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild at the time the corresponding bulletins were released," said Don Leatham, director of solutions and strategy at Lumension. "This is definitely putting pressure on IT teams to get these patches tested in their environments and out to the endpoints in their organizations." This month's security update touches on a wide array of Windows applications and services. Internet Explorer, Excel and Word get fixes this time. Items associated with remote-code execution attacks by hackers get the critical status. The important fixes are designed to stave off two instances of elevation-of-privilege exploits. The moderate item is supposed to stop a denial-of-service attack. [...] _______________________________________________ Best Selling Security Books and More! http://www.shopinfosecnews.org/Received on Wed Apr 15 2009 - 22:08:01 PDT
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