Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Microsoft Security Updates For January 2010

Microsoft has released its monthly security updates. The first packet of the year 2010 contains only one update. MS10-001 fixes vulnerability that could allow remote code execution if a user opens content rendered in a specifically crafted Embedded OpenType (EOT) font in client application that can render EOT fonts. Such applications are for example Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office PowerPoint and Microsoft Office Word. The severity of the update is rated as critical for Windows 2000 systems. For other supported Windows operating systems the severity is rated as low.

Microsoft released also a new version of its Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT).

More information can be from the bulletin summary.

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