Microsoft’s January Patch Tuesday addresses a total of four vulnerabilities including one present in Windows XP and Windows 2003, which was reportedly being exploited in the wild in November last year.
None of the bulletins in this month’s Patch Tuesday are rated critical. Bulletin 2 comes with a fix for a vulnerability which was being exploited late last year allowing local users with low privileges to gain administrative control of the system. As the vulnerability couldn’t be exploited remotely, the fix has been given an ‘important’ rating rather than critical.
According to the advanced notification, Bulletin 1 brings in a update that affects all supported versions of Microsoft Word and Word Viewers, Bulletin 3 affects Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and the last Bulletin 4 affects all supported versions of Microsoft Dynamics AX.
