Microsoft has released seven security patches for critical flaws in Internet Explorer, the Visual Studio 2005 development software and Windows Media Format.
The new patches, issued as part of its monthly security updates for December, tackle 11 bugs identified across several programs.
Four of the patches relate to a flaw in Internet Explorer that has been rated as critical and could begin to be exploited from as early as the end of this week.
Enterprise administrators, meanwhile, are expected to be interested in the release of a Simple Network Monitoring Protocol (SNMP) patch.
The patch has been deemed important rather than critical as SNMP is ordinarily blocked by firewalls and turned off by default on Windows systems.
However, it is widely used as part of the network-monitoring infrastructure in the enterprise, and is also frequently used on critical servers, Gunter Ollmann, director of IBM’s Internet Security System’s X-Force threat analysis service, said.
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