Another "Super Tuesday" patched this week but I just got around to firing up my Windows VM’s today (actually it’s been about 12 days since I’ve been in Windows). There were ten updates waiting for me on Windows Vista and eight on Windows XP Home, although not all were security related.
This month’s updates included:
KB945553 [...]
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Microsoft has released 4 security bulletins for March. All are for Office products and all are rated critical for one or more of the affected products. There weren’t any OS or IE updates this month. Since I don’t run any Office products I didn’t install any Microsoft updates this month, but these were the [...]
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Microsoft released 11 security bulletins for February 2008, six are rated critical and five are important. My Windows XP Pro SP2 installation received the following updates through Windows Update:
MS08-010 - Cumulative Update for Internet Explorer (critical)
MS08-007 - Vulnerability in WebDAV Mini-Redirector Could Allow Remote Code Execution (critical)
MS08-008 - Vulnerability in OLE Automation Could Allow [...]
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Apple sent out a bunch of updates today, not all of them related to their product announcements at Macworld. They released a security update for Quicktime. Quicktime 7.4 patches 4 security vulnerabilities.
Quicktime required a reboot on my Macs, as do all Quicktime updates. On Windows I have the iTunes+Quicktime combo installed and that also [...]
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Another second Tuesday of the month and another set of Microsoft patches. I realize it’s important to patch vulnerabilities as soon as possible and this monthly release schedule tends to go against that, but I like the consistency and ability to plan.
Anyway, this week brought two patches. The first is MS08-001 titled “Vulnerabilities [...]
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WordPress has released version 2.3.2 which it calls an “urgent security release”. WordPress 2.3.2 contains a total of 7 bug fixes. The security vulnerability would allow someone to see future posts by giving access to draft posts. Sixteen WordPress files were changed in this update.
This version will also suppress some DB error messages [...]
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