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Two critical updates for Microsoft systems in December 2010

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In its security bulletin summary for December 2010 Microsoft has published two updates for critical, 14 updates for important, and one update for moderate 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 December 2010.
From this page you will also find links to more detailed information in Microsoft's Security Bulletins MS10-090- MS10-106.

The critical updates address the following issues:

  • Three publicly disclosed and four privately reported vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer.
  • Several privately reported vulnerabilities in Windows Open Type Font (OTF) driver.

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 relevant security updates as soon as possible, to be protected from potential exploits.