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ITSS-Advisory : Medium : Microsoft : Multiple products Notification : Potentially unauthenticated remote code execution and DoS

THREAT LEVEL
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Medium

INFORMATION
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Product: Windows 2000
Windows XP
Windows Server 2003
Windows Vista
Windows Server 2008
Internet Explorer
Excel
Internet Security and Acceleration Server

Impact: Execute Arbitrary Code/Commands
Increased Privileges
Denial of Service
Access: Remote/Unauthenticated

AFFECTED PLATFORMS
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Operating System: Windows
Mac OS X

ACTION
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Microsoft have released eight security bulletins:

Critical:
- Three for Windows
- One for Internet Explorer
- One for Excel

Important:
- One for Windows
- One for Internet Security and Acceleration Server

Moderate:
- One for Windows

 

Administrators of affected computers are advised to review the
bulletins, test and apply relevant updates.

References:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms09-apr.mspx
http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=6193

 

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