Microsoft Virtualization Security Fix Planned on Patch Day

Microsoft issued an advanced notification of nine security bulletins that the company plans on releasing with next Tuesday's patch day. Six of these will fix critical security vulnerabilities with bugs being found across the board from the Windows operating system, Office, Internet Explorer, Visual Basic to Windows Media Player.

Eight of the vulnerabilities allow attackers to execute injected malicious code. Microsoft Virtual PC and Virtual Server users are vulnerable by attackers being able to elevate their privileges.

Affected versions include: Microsoft Virtual PC 2004, Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 Service Pack 1, Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 Standard Edition, Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 Enterprise Edition, Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 Standard Edition, Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 Enterprise Edition, Microsoft Virtual PC for Mac Version 6.1 and Microsoft Virtual PC for Mac Version 7.

Find out more specifics from Microsoft's Security Bulletin, here.

Posted by David Marshall on August 11, 2007 06:52 AM