The new security release includes no less than six bulletins, just as announced last week in an advance notification, and patches a total of eight Critical vulnerabilities, along with three other security breaches rendered Important.
The first bulletin in the update, MS12-023, is targeted at Internet Explorer and aims at resolving five flaws discovered in the application.
“The most severe vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted webpage using Internet Explorer,” Microsoft explains.
The second bulletin, MS12-024, resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Windows that could allow remote code execution, provided that the user installed a specific portable executable (PE) file.
With the new security update, Microsoft also patches a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft .NET Framework that could allow remote code execution “if a user views a specially crafted webpage using a web browser that can run XAML Browser Applications (XBAPs).”
