Five critical updates for Microsoft systems in September 2009
9 September 2009
In its security bulletin summary for September 2009 Microsoft has published five updates for critical vulnerabilities in its operating systems / applications.
Critical is Microsoft’s highest vulnerability rating.
A summary describing briefly the vulnerabilities is available from Microsoft’s Security Bulletin Summary for September 2009.
From this page you will also find links to more detailed information in Microsoft's Security Bulletins MS09-045 - MS09-049.
The critical update addresses the following issues:
- One privately reported vulnerability in the JScript scripting engine.
- One privately reported vulnerability in Wireless LAN AutoConfig Service.
- Two privately reported vulnerabilities in Windows Media Format.
- Several privately reported vulnerabilities in Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) processing.
- One privately reported vulnerability in the DHTML Editing Component ActiveX control.
Updates that fixes the vulnerabilities are available from Windows automatic update mechanism for systems that support this. Alternatively, one may download updates from http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com.
Norman advices all affected users to download the security updates as soon as possible, to be protected from potential exploits.
