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Nine critical updates for Microsoft systems in June 2011

2011-06-15 [Avvisi sul software]

In its security bulletin summary for June 2011 Microsoft has published nine updates for critical and seven 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 June 2011.
From this page you will also find links to more detailed information in Microsoft's Security Bulletins MS11-037 - MS11-052.

The critical updates address the following issues:

  • One privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) Automation.
  • One privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft .NET Framework and Microsoft Silverlight.
  • One privately reported vulnerability in the Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 Client (formerly named the Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway Firewall Client).
  • One privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Kernel-mode drivers.
  • Two privately reported vulnerabilities in the Microsoft Distributed File System (DFS).
  • One privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows SMB Client.
  • One publicly disclosed vulnerability in Microsoft .NET Framework.
  • Eleven privately reported vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer.
  • One privately reported vulnerability in the Microsoft implementation of Vector Markup Language (VML).

Updates that fixes the vulnerabilities are available from Windows automatic update mechanism.
To manually check for updates Click the Start button, click All Programs and then click Windows Update.

Norman advices all affected users to download the relevant security updates as soon as possible, to be protected from potential exploits.