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MSRC

2007

September 2007 Monthly Release

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Hello, This is Christopher Budd. I wanted to go ahead and let you know that we’ve posted our bulletins for the September 2007 monthly release. This month we’ve released: MS07-051: This bulletin addresses a vulnerability in Microsoft Agent on Windows 2000 only. This bulletin is rated “Critical”.** MS07-052: This bulletin addresses a vulnerability in Crystal Reports which shipped with some versions of Visual Studio.

September 2007 Bulletin Release Advance Notification

Thursday, September 06, 2007

Hello, This is Christopher Budd and today is the Thursday before the scheduled September 2007 bulletin release on Tuesday Sept. 11, 2007. As we do each month, as part of our processes to help make security updates more predictable and assist with your planning, we’ve posted our Advance Notification with preliminary information about next week’s release.

Technical Tips and Insights on MS07-049 and MS07-044

Thursday, August 23, 2007

Hi everyone. Jonathan from the SWI team in the MSRC here. My team researches potential mitigations and workarounds as part of the comprehensive investigations we do for each security bulletin. We regularly discover information that could help customers better understand how to protect themselves via mitigations and workarounds. This month, I wanted to give you information about the Virtual PC and Virtual Server bulletin and some “best practices” guidance to help protect yourself from this class of vulnerability.

Questions about last Tuesday’s Release and Skype

Monday, August 20, 2007

Hello everyone this is Christopher Budd. We’ve been getting questions from customers about a posting that Skype made today about a recent service outage they experienced on August 16, 2007. Specifically, we have questions from customers looking for clarification about the role Windows Update and this month’s release played in that situation, if any.

August 2007 Monthly Bulletin Release

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

August 2007 Monthly Bulletin Release I’m Simon, Release Manager in the MSRC. The August release contains 9 new bulletins, 6 of which have maximum severities of “Critical”. MS07-042 Vulnerability in Microsoft XML Core Services Could Allow Remote Code Execution (936227) MS07-043 Vulnerability in OLE Automation Could Allow Remote Code Execution (921503)