A series of IE errors are fixed

Yesterday (December 12), Microsoft released a December security update to fix a series of security flaws in Internet Explorer.

In total, Microsoft released seven patches to fix 11 bugs in its application products, including Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player and Visual Studio 2005.

In this phase Microsoft did not fix the two extremely dangerous new security bugs discovered in the Microsoft Word application.

According to the previous plan Microsoft said only released 6 security updates. However, at the end of the day, the company decided to add a security patch for Windows Media Player because it was used to attack users.

Last November, security companies around the world warned of a buffer overflow error when Windows Media Player handled ".asx" and ".asf" files. Hackers can take advantage of this error to hijack the system through the method of tricking users into opening a malicious file.

Meanwhile, a patch for Internet Explorer fixes a total of 4 security bugs in this browser. Most of these errors are classified as extremely dangerous because there are signs that hackers have begun to use them to attack users.

Experts recommend that corporate network administrators should pay close attention to SNMP (Simple Network Monitoring Protocol) patches for IE. However, Microsoft only classified this error as "important" instead of "dangerous" because the default firewall in Windows contributed to minimizing the risk of this error.

But experts say SNMP is often deployed as part of an enterprise network infrastructure system and is often applied on critical servers. That's why it should be considered the most important mistake for businesses.

Updates also fix another critical bug in Visual Studio 2005. Microsoft warns that this error could be used to create a new computer worm outbreak on the Internet.

Parallel to the security updates Microsoft also released a number of other updates for Windows and Outlook Express.

Hoang Dung