MS to release out-of-band patch for critical IE vulnerability
Users advised to patch ASAP.
Microsoft is set to release an emergency out-of-band patch for the vulnerability in its Internet Explorer
browser reported last week.
Attacks via the vulnerability have been shown to work on a wide
range of Windows and IE variants, and have been widely seeded to both malicious websites and legitimate
sites that have been compromised to display malicious content. As a result, Microsoft is releasing this patch outside of its
normal monthly cycle of updates - the next scheduled release of which will not be until the second Tuesday in January.
The advance notification of the patch release can be found
here. The advance notification will
subsequently be replaced with a revised December bulletin containing both the out-of-band
security bulletin and the security bulletins already released in December's 'Patch Tuesday' cycle.
Updates can be received through the Microsoft Update and Windows Update Services components or downloaded directly from
the Microsoft site. Users are urged to ensure the updates are in place as soon as possible.
17 December 2008
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