Microsoft Patch Tuesday for June 2007
Microsoft released six security patches today. Four of them were rated critical, one important and one moderate. There are patches for all supported desktop OS platforms, Internet Explorer, a couple mail apps and for a couple versions of Visio. There aren’t any Office patches. The four critical desktop patches are: MS07-031 for Windows XP SP2, [...]
Security Update 2007-05 for Mac OS X
Apple has released Security Update 2007-05 which keeps it in the one-a-month category for the year. According to the Apple notification it contains updates to the following components: bind CarbonCore CoreGraphics crontabs fetchmail file iChat mDNSResponder PPP ruby screen texinfo VPN The update is for both Intel and PPC macs.
May 2007 Patch Tuesday
Microsoft released five critical security bulletins for desktop software today. In line with a growing trend, 3 of the 5 were for application software and not operating systems. Most of the vulnerabilities were also intended to be exploited through a website. Mac users also take notice since Office 2004 for the Mac is also vulnerable [...]
Microsoft Releases Patch for Animated Cursor Vulnerability
Microsoft has released a patch for the animated cursor vulnerability. The bulletin is MS07-017. They also address six other vulnerabilities in the Graphics Rendering Engine (GDI), although none are rated critical. They make a note of an known issue with the Realtek HD Audio Control Panel (Rthdcpl.exe) on Windows XP SP2 which is documented here. [...]