Microsoft to Release Seven Patches, and Maybe one for Safari

Courtesy DaniWeb IT Discussion Community (Featured Entries)  Thu, 06/05/2008 - 22:40

Microsoft today gave advance notice of a security bulletin it will release on Tuesday to repair seven vulnerabilities in Windows and Internet Explorer, three of them critical.

The three critical warnings involve potential remote code execution, and affect Bluetooth, DirectX and IE.

According to reports, the latter patch might also include fixes for the so-called “Carpet Bomb” threat to Apple’s Safari browser made known recently by Nitesh Dhanjani.

Microsoft last week issued a separate security warning about the “blended threat” to Safari on Windows XP and Vista as well as...

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