Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities

Original release date: September 9, 2008
Last revised: --
Source: US-CERT

Systems Affected

• Microsoft Windows
• Microsoft Windows Media Encoder
• Microsoft Office XP, 2003, and 2007

Overview

Vulnerabilities in a variety of Microsoft products could allow an attacker to gain control of your computer.

Solution

Install updates

Microsoft has released updates to address these critical vulnerabilities. The updates are available on the Microsoft Update site. We recommend enabling Automatic Updates.

Description

In the Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for September 2008, Microsoft has released updates to address vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Windows Media Encoder and Office. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a vulnerable application to crash.

More technical information is available in US-CERT Technical Cyber Security Alert TA08-253A.

References

• Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for September 2008 - <http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-sep.mspx>
• US-CERT Technical Cyber Security Alert TA08-253A - <http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-253A.html>
• US-CERT Vulnerability Notes for Microsoft September 2008 updates - <http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/byid?searchview&query=ms08-sep>

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Revision History

September 9, 2008: Initial release