MS06-048: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Could Allow Remote Code Execution (922968) 08 Aug 2006 08:00 GMTBulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This update resolves two newly discovered, privately reported and public vulnerabilities. Each vulnerability is documented in this bulletin in its own "Vulnerability Details" section. When using vulnerable versions of Office, if a user were logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of the client workstation. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. 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. We recommend that customers apply the update immediately.
Source: TechNet MS06-047: Vulnerability in Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications Could Allow Remote Code Execution (921645) 08 Aug 2006 08:00 GMTBulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This update resolves a newly discovered, privately reported vulnerability. The vulnerability is documented in the "Vulnerability Details" section of this bulletin. On vulnerable versions of Office or Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications, if a user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. 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. We recommend that customers apply the update immediately.
Source: TechNet MS06-043: Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Could Allow Remote Code Execution (920214) 08 Aug 2006 08:00 GMTBulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This update resolves a newly-discovered, privately-reported vulnerability. The vulnerability is documented in the "Vulnerability Details" section of this bulletin An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. If a user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. 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. We recommend that customers apply the update immediately.
Source: TechNet MS06-042: Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (918899) 08 Aug 2006 08:00 GMTBulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This update resolves several newly discovered, publicly and privately reported vulnerabilities. Each vulnerability is documented in its own Vulnerability Details section of this bulletin. If a user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker who successfully exploited the most severe of these vulnerabilities could take complete control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. 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. We recommend that customers apply the update immediately.
Source: TechNet