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Microsoft to have 1 Critical and 2 Important patches for March

In its advance notification, Microsoft today said that it intends to issue three security bulletins on Patch Tuesday, March 10, 2009.
The most serious of vulnerability is within Windows and could lead to remote code execution if exploited. This patch will be given Microsoft’s most severe rating of Critical.
Two other patches expected on Tuesday also [...]

March 5, 2009   Posted in: Defense in Depth, Robert Vamosi, vulnerability  No Comments

Apple issues 8 critical QuickTime security updates

Today Apple issued a security update for QuickTime 7.6. The update addresses flaws in both the Mac OS X and Windows XP and Vista implementations of the media viewer.
Specifically, the update fixes flaws CVE-2009-0001 through CVE-2009-0007.
The eight vulnerabilities within QuickTime can all be exploited to cause an unexpected application termination (denial of service) or [...]

January 21, 2009  Tags: , , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Apple, CVE, Defense in Depth, Mac OS X, QuckTime, Robert Vamosi, Windows, arbitrary code execution, denial of service, security update, vulnerability  Comments Closed