Microsoft issues emergency patch
Under increasing pressure from fallout due to a security problem with Vector Markup Language (VML), Microsoft has given in and issued a patch before the monthly “Patch Tursday”. The patch is described in an update to the September patches. Download is here. Part of Microsoft’s announcement:
Microsoft released security update MS06-055, outside of the regular monthly update release schedule, to help protect customers from exploitation of a publicly known vulnerability in the Windows operating system, in response to malicious and criminal attacks on computer users that were recently discovered.
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