May 2013 Internet Explorer Updates

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS13-037 - Critical

This security update resolves eleven privately reported vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. The most severe vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted Web page using Internet Explorer. An attacker who successfully exploited the most severe of these vulnerabilities could gain the same user rights as the current user. 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.

This security update is rated Critical for Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer 8, Internet Explorer 9, and Internet Explorer 10 on Windows clients and Moderate for Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer 8, Internet Explorer 9, and Internet Explorer 10 on Windows servers. For more information, see the full bulletin.

Recommendation.  Most customers have automatic updating enabled and will not need to take any action because this security update will be downloaded and installed automatically. Customers who have not enabled automatic updating need to check for updates and install this update manually. For information about specific configuration options in automatic updating, see Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 294871.

For administrators and enterprise installations, or end users who want to install this security update manually, Microsoft recommends that customers apply the update immediately using update management software, or by checking for updates using the Microsoft Update service.

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS13-038 – Critical

This security update resolves one publicly disclosed vulnerability in Internet Explorer. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted Web page using Internet Explorer. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the current user. 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.

This security update is rated Critical for Internet Explorer 8 on Windows clients and Moderate for Internet Explorer 8 on Windows servers. This security update has no severity rating for Internet Explorer 9. For more information, see the full bulletin.

This security update also addresses the vulnerability first described in Microsoft Security Advisory 2847140.

Recommendation. Most customers have automatic updating enabled and will not need to take any action because this security update will be downloaded and installed automatically. Customers who have not enabled automatic updating need to check for updates and install this update manually. For information about specific configuration options in automatic updating, see Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 294871.

For administrators and enterprise installations, or end users who want to install this security update manually, Microsoft recommends that customers apply the update immediately using update management software, or by checking for updates using the Microsoft Update service.

Microsoft Security Advisory (2755801)

Today, we also announced the availability of an update for Adobe Flash Player in Internet Explorer 10 on all supported editions of Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012. The details of the vulnerabilities are documented in Adobe security bulletinAPSB13-14   

The update addresses vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player by updating the affected Adobe Flash libraries contained within Internet Explorer 10.  For more information, see the advisory.

Most customers have automatic updating enabled and will not need to take any action because this update will be downloaded and installed automatically. Customers who have not enabled automatic updating need to check for updates and install this update manually. For information about specific configuration options in automatic updating, see Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 294871.

— Ceri Gallacher, Program Manager, Internet Explorer

Comments

• Anonymous
  May 14, 2013
  Do any of these fix the memory leak problem, or the local data storage exploit?

• Anonymous
  May 14, 2013
  We need CSS3 border-image support in IE10 please, IE is the only browser not supporting border-image!

• Anonymous
  May 14, 2013
  Due to incessant trolling, this forum is not read anymore by the IE-team. It's more like a bulletin board now, that gets a new pinning every now and then. It's a shame that that there is no meaningful dialogue anymore, but I can understand why the team is focusing their attention on other matters now.

• Anonymous
  May 15, 2013
  tank

• Anonymous
  May 16, 2013
  The page www.bloomberg.com/billionaires is not working properly in IE 10. It works well on Firefox and Chrome.

• Anonymous
  May 22, 2013
  Hello IE Team, could you build a feature to store a browsing session? This way would be much easier for some of us to open various links at once without having to bookmark each site. Many regards from Zambia.