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Microsoft patches five critical flaws

'Patch Tuesday' sees Microsoft warn about five Critical security patches to fix vulnerabilities in Windows and IE.

By Rene Millman, 15 Nov 2006 at 15:00

Microsoft released six new patches, five marked "critical", to fix vulnerabilities in its Internet Explorer browser and operating system.

The company urged end user to patch systems immediately in order to prevent hackers from compromising target machines.

The first update is a cumulative security update for Internet Explorer that fixes flaws that could allow hackers to successfully exploit the most severe of these vulnerabilities could take complete control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. The flaws were found in the DirectAnimation ActiveX and HTML Rendering Memory corruptions.

Four more updates (MS06-068, MS06-069, MS06-070 and MS06-071) fix vulnerabilities that could allow remote code execution in Microsoft Agent, Macromedia Flash Player, Windows Workstation Service and Microsoft XML Core Services.

There was also an update, labelled "important" that fix flaws in Client Service for NetWare that could allow attackers to execute code remotely.

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