Neowin News Feed for: Execution

Patch Tuesday: Five critical for August 2009

Andrew Lyle — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:50:52 +0000

Microsoft has issued an advanced security bulletin for August 2009 with five of the nine bulletins marked as "critical" and four are labelled as "important". These five critical patches are to patch remote code execution... Read more...

Windows XP gets another stay of execution

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 01:04:37 +0000

Microsoft has extended the final OEM and reseller delivery date for the Windows XP from January 31, 2009 to May 30, 2009. The cut off date for PC makers to obtain licenses for the software... Read more...

Code execution vulnerability found in Firefox 3.0

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:13:33 +0000

Just 5 hours after the official release of the latest refresh of Mozilla's flagship browser, an unnamed researcher has sold a critical code execution vulnerability that puts all Firefox 3.0 users at risk of PC... Read more...

Mozilla patched a remote code execution flaw in Thunderbird

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:39:00 +0000

Mozilla has released Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 which fixes a remote exploitation of a vulnerability that allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code on Linux and Windows. The vulnerability exists when parsing an e-mail if the "Preview"... Read more...

Third MS Word Code Execution Exploit Posted

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:07:28 +0000

Exploit code for a third, unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft Word has been posted on the Internet, adding to the software maker's struggles to keep up with gaping holes in its popular word processing program. The... Read more...

Microsoft Security Advisory (926043) Remote Code Execution

Steven Parker — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 14:13:57 +0000

Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a vulnerability in supported versions of Microsoft Windows. Customers who are running Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 in their default configurations, with the... Read more...

Microsoft IE Remote Code Execution Exploit (0day) - Critical

Tom Warren — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:25:12 +0000

FrSIRT have identified a critical vulnerability with Internet Explorer 6 for Windows XP SP1 and SP2. The problem could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands. The issue is due... Read more...

Microsoft Confirms Code Execution Hole in IE

Fri, 01 Jul 2005 15:08:29 +0000

Microsoft late Thursday confirmed a security flaw in its dominant Internet Explorer browser could be potentially exploited by malicious hackers to take "take complete control of the affected system." The software giant released a security... Read more...

ASN.1 Vulnerability Could Allow Code Execution (828028)

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 10 Feb 2004 20:13:12 +0000

Impact of vulnerability: Remote Code Execution - Maximum Severity Rating: Critical Affected Software: Windows NT4/2000/XP/2003 (32bit & 64bit) Overview: A security vulnerability exists in the Microsoft ASN.1 Library... Read more...

Internet Explorer Object Data Remote Execution Vulnerability

Fri, 05 Sep 2003 23:31:06 +0000

Severity: High (Remote Code Execution) Systems Affected: Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 for Windows Server 2003 eEye... Read more...

Flaw in Visual Basic for Applications Allows Code Execution

Wed, 03 Sep 2003 23:10:19 +0000

Microsoft VBA is a development technology for developing client desktop packaged applications and integrating them with existing data and systems. Microsoft VBA is based on the Microsoft Visual Basic development system. Microsoft Office products include... Read more...

Buffer Overrun In HTML Converter Could Allow Code Execution

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 09 Jul 2003 18:05:06 +0000

An identified security issue in Microsoft Windows could allow an attacker to compromise a Microsoft Windows-based system and then take a variety of actions. For example, an attacker could execute code on the system. By... Read more...

Flaw in Microsoft VM JDBC Classes Could Allow Code Execution

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 12 Dec 2002 11:13:21 +0000

Who should read this bulletin: All customers using Microsoft® Windows®. Impact of vulnerability: Three vulnerabilities, the most serious of which could enable an attacker to gain complete control over a user's system. ... Read more...

MS02-053: Buffer Overrun in SmartHTML Interpreter Could Allow Code Execution (Q324096)

Thu, 26 Sep 2002 08:23:04 +0000

The SmartHTML Interpreter (shtml.dll) is part of the FrontPage Server Extensions (FPSE), and provides support for web forms and other FrontPage-based dynamic content. The interpreter contains a flaw that could be exposed when processing a... Read more...

MS02-022: Unchecked Buffer in MSN Chat Control Can Lead to Code Execution

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 09 May 2002 10:44:48 +0000

Thanks Andrew, Jimmy Daniels & lawtai. Who is Affected: All customers using the Microsoft® MSN Chat control, which is available for direct download and ships with MSN Messenger and Exchange Instant Messenger.... Read more...

Outlook Express inadvertent script execution

Mon, 24 Sep 2001 11:09:34 +0000

Nothing is sacred : Text e-mails process scripts The only way to secure a computer from hackers is not connect it to the Internet. Since none of us have that luxury, it's... Read more...