To fix privately reported vulnerabilities found in almost all Internet Explorer versions including IE9, Microsoft has released a security update "KB2675157" as a part of Patch Tuesday.
The most severe vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted web page using Internet Explorer. An attacker who successfully exploited any of these vulnerabilities could gain the same user rights as the logged-on user. 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 Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer 8, and Internet Explorer 9 on Windows clients and Moderate for Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer 8, and Internet Explorer 9 on Windows servers.
The security update addresses the vulnerabilities by modifying the way that Internet Explorer handles the printing of specially crafted HTML content and the way that Internet Explorer handles objects in memory.
Although its a security update, it updates version of IE9 to 9.0.6. If you check the About Internet Explorer box, it shows the "Update Versions" is 9.0.6.
You can install the update using Windows Update or download using following link:
This article was posted by VG in following section: Internet Explorer.
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SMBR
Great News!
M1cha
Why they are already updating IE6?
It's too old to use it...
Ahmad
Nice. So they now release incremental builds in security sense like Mozilla. That`s nice.
Mark Anthony
what's changed?
any change log ?~
Swapnil
@M1cha, Internet Explorer 6 SP3, bundled with Windows XP SP3 is in Extended support until 2014.
Uewd
Nice and thanks for sharing and informing us. I found 15 updates avaiable in Windows Update and this update which you mentioned here was one of them :)
Kyle
@Uewd,
WOW ME TOO
amiel
good thing i have auto updates enabled =D
A&L
mine says 9.0.8112
BobbyPhoenix
I have all updates, and mine also says 9.0.8112 Hm?
8/10/2011
11:10PM EST