Posted on Friday, October 06 2006 @ 23:59 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
On Tuesday we can expect six Windows and four Office
security updates from Microsoft.
Some of the patches will be deemed "critical," the company's highest severity rating. The company also plans to send out a security bulletin for Microsoft .Net that will be tagged moderate, it said.
The updates, part of Microsoft's regularly scheduled monthly patch cycle, come after sample attack code has surfaced for vulnerabilities in the Windows Shell component of the operating system. Those flaws could enable attackers to use a Web site to load malicious software onto systems.
