RE: Microsoft Security Bulletins for August 2008

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"Donna Buenaventura" wrote:

As part of Microsoft's routine, monthly security update cycle, they released
eleven (11) new security bulletins:
MS08-041 - Vulnerability in the ActiveX Control for the Snapshot Viewer for
Microsoft Access Could Allow Remote Code Execution (955617)
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-041.mspx
MS08-042 - Vulnerability in Microsoft Word Could Allow Remote Code Execution
(955048)
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-042.mspx
MS08-043 - Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Excel Could Allow Remote Code
Execution (954066)
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-043.mspx
MS08-044 - Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Filters Could Allow Remote
Code Execution (924090)
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-044.mspx
MS08-045 - Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (953838)
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-045.mspx
MS08-046 - Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Image Color Management System
Could Allow Remote Code Execution (952954)
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-046.mspx
MS08-047 - Vulnerability in IPsec Policy Processing Could Allow Information
Disclosure (953733)
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-047.mspx
MS08-048 - Security Update for Outlook Express and Windows Mail (951066)
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-048.mspx
MS08-049 - Vulnerabilities in Event System Could Allow Remote Code Execution
(950974)
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-049.mspx
MS08-050 - Vulnerability in Windows Messenger Could Allow Information
Disclosure (955702)
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-050.mspx
MS08-051 - Vulnerabilities in Microsoft PowerPoint Could Allow Remote Code
Execution (949785)
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-051.mspx

You can view this month's Security Bulletins Summary at their website. Visit
also the MSRC blog for further notes or details on the said security
bulletins.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-aug.mspx
http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/

For information about non-security releases on Windows Update and Microsoft
update, please see:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/894199/en-us

Don't forget to scan the system using Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer
(MBSA) to check for missing and mis-configured patches.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/tools/mbsahome.mspx

Security Updates support is free of charge. Contact MS at 1-866-CSAFETY if
you are in the US or Canada. International users, please go to
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=21155

Regards,

Donna Buenaventura
dozleng.com

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