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Four critical updates for Microsoft systems in September 2010

2010-09-15 [Software advisories]

In its security bulletin summary for September 2010 Microsoft has published four updates for critical and five updates for important 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 2010.
From this page you will also find links to more detailed information in Microsoft's Security Bulletins MS10-061- MS10-069.

The critical updates address the following issues:

  • One publicly disclosed vulnerability in the Print Spooler service.
  • One privately reported vulnerability in MPEG-4 codec.
  • One privately reported vulnerability in the Unicode Scripts Processor.
  • One privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook.

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.