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Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.2 (June 18, 2013): Bulletin revised to announce a detection change in the security update for 2839229 to address the known issue documented in Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 2839229. This is a detection change only. Customers who have...

Original release date: June 18, 2013 | Last revised: June 19, 2013 Systems Affected Any system using Oracle Java including JDK and JRE 7 Update 21 and earlier JDK and JRE 6 Update 45 and earlier JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 45 and earlier JavaFX 2.2.21 and earlier Website owners that host...

Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.1 (June 12, 2013): Updated the Known Issues entry in the Knowledge Base Article section from "None" to "Yes". Summary: This security update resolves one privately reported vulnerability in Windows Kernel. The vulnerability could...

Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (June 11, 2013): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves one privately reported vulnerability in Windows Kernel. The vulnerability could allow information disclosure if an attacker logs on to a system and...

Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (May 14, 2013): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves eleven privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user open a specially crafted...

Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (May 14, 2013): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Windows Writer. The vulnerability could allow information disclosure if a user opens Writer using a specially...

Revision Note: V1.0 (May 3, 2013): Advisory published. Summary: Microsoft is investigating public reports of a vulnerability in Internet Explorer 8. Microsoft is aware of attacks that attempt to exploit this vulnerability. More...

As my career in security response has grown over the years, I am often reminded of the words of Italian author Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa, who stated, “If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.” There are some things that we wish to...

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Original release date: March 05, 2013 Systems Affected Any system using Oracle Java 7, 6, 5 (1.7, 1.6, 1.5) including Java Platform Standard Edition 7 (Java SE 7) Java Platform Standard Edition 6 (Java SE 6) Java Platform Standard Edition 6 (Java SE 5) Java SE Development Kit (JDK...

Original release date: January 10, 2013 | Last revised: February 06, 2013 Systems Affected Any system using Oracle Java 7 (1.7, 1.7.0) including Java Platform Standard Edition 7 (Java SE 7) Java SE Development Kit (JDK 7) Java SE Runtime Environment (JRE 7) OpenJDK 7 and 7u IcedTea...

Original release date: January 15, 2013 | Last revised: February 06, 2013 Systems Affected Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Overview Microsoft has released Security Bulletin MS13-008 to address the CButton...

Revision Note: V1.1 (December 31, 2012): Added link to Microsoft Fix it solution, "MSHTML Shim Workaround," that prevents exploitation of this issue. Summary: Microsoft is investigating public reports of a vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7, and Internet Explorer...

Severity Rating: Critical Revision Note: V1.0 (December 11, 2012): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user browses to a folder that...

Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (October 9, 2012): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Works. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted...

Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (October 9, 2012): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft SQL Server on systems running SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). The vulnerability is a...

Today we released Security Update MS12-063 to address limited attacks against a small number of computers through a vulnerability in Internet Explorer versions 9 and earlier. The majority of customers have automatic updates enabled and will not need to take any action because protections will be...

Severity Rating: Critical Revision Note: V1.1 (August 15, 2012): Removed erroneous FAQ for Windows 8 Release Preview and Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate releases. The Windows 8 Release Preview and Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate releases are not affected by the...

Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (July 10, 2012): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves one publicly disclosed vulnerability in Microsoft Office for Mac. The vulnerability could allow elevation of privilege if a malicious executable is...

Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (June 12, 2012): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves one privately reported vulnerability and one publicly disclosed vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerabilities could allow elevation of...