Microsoft Patch Tuesday for August 2007
Microsoft patch Tuesday for August 2007 brings us 6 critical and 3 important security updates from Microsoft. Microsoft summarizes the patches in their August summary. Every supported desktop version of Windows is affected by one or more patches. Several Microsoft Office versions are also affected along with several versions of Virtual PC and Virtual Server. [...]
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.6 Released
Mozilla has released a security update to Firefox 2, making it the second update this month. Firefox 2.0.0.6 is available through the built-in auto-update feature or as a standalone download. One “critical” and one “moderate” vulnerabilities are patched in this update. The critical update is “Unescaped URIs passed to external programs” which is similar to [...]
Firefox 2.0.0.5 Released
Mozilla has released Firefox 2.0.0.5 which patches eight security vulnerabilities in Firefox. The update patched eight security vulnerabilities. The previously reported vulnerability where IE would pass a malformed URL which Firefox would then accept is one of the eight patched vulnerabilities. Two other vulnerabilities were rated as “critical” by the Firefox team. A critical rating [...]
Adobe Patches Flash Player
Adobe has issued an update to Flash Player (formerly known as Macromedia Flash Player) that patches several serious security vulnerabilities. The latest version is Flash Player 9.0.47.0 They’ve also updated the older version 7 to version 7.0.70.0. The patch may be installed through the auto update feature of Flash Player or you can visit the [...]
Apple Adds to Patch Tuesday
Apple joins the the Tuesday patch party and releases a security update for Quicktime along with a bugfix update for iTunes. The patches are for the software on both Windows and OS X. The Quicktime update, to version 7.2 includes eight security vulnerability fixes some of which will allow code execution. It also includes updates [...]