Microsoft Releases Patches For 23 Vulnerabilities
Microsoft will be launching a bunch of updates for its Office application suite and Internet Explorer in a few hours' time; eight patches issued by the software giant will be addressing 23 vulnerabilities.
Of the eight security bulletins for this April's Patch Thursday, five have been labelled as critical; the most notable of them will take care of a zero-day flaw in Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet package that was discovered back in February 2009.
Patches numbered MS09-009, MS09-010 and MS09-012 will hopefully close a number of zero-day exploits rated as critical by Microsoft. Various versions of Office are concerned with the latest patch release, both on Mac and Microsoft. Even Wordpad will receive an update due to the fact that it shares a vulnerability with Microsoft Word.
