Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-002 (978207) released today

Heads-up about this Critical out of band Internet Explorer security update released earlier this morning.

This security update resolves seven privately reported vulnerabilities and one publicly disclosed vulnerability in Internet Explorer. The more severe vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted Web page using Internet Explorer. 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 all supported releases of Internet Explorer: Internet Explorer 5.01, Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1, Internet Explorer 7, and Internet Explorer 8 (except Internet Explorer 6 for supported editions of Windows Server 2003). For Internet Explorer 6 for supported editions of Windows Server 2003 as listed, this update is rated Moderate.

This security update also addresses the vulnerability first described in Microsoft Security Advisory 979352.

For all the details see https://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms10-002.mspx