14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft rolled out eight security bulletins on Patch Tuesday, one of which was supposed to address a zero-day flaw in Internet Explorer that was recently made public and thus exposed unpatched systems.
Redmond claims that the MS13-080 bulletin is rated as critical, which means that users should prioritize its deployment. It fixes a total of eight privately reported and two publicly disclosed vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, it added.
“The most severe vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted Web page using Internet Explorer. An attacker who successfully exploited the most severe of these vulnerabilities could gain the same user rights as the current user. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights,” Microsoft explained.
The security update is considered to be critical for IE6, IE7, IE8, IE9, and IE10 on Windows, and moderate for IE6, IE7, IE8, IE9, and IE10 on Windows Server.