DP's Security Bits

Issued: August 20, 2008

Summary

The following bulletins have undergone a major revision increment.
Please see the appropriate bulletin for more details.

  * MS08-051 - Critical

Bulletin Information:

* MS08-051 - Critical

 - http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-051.mspx
 - Reason for Revision: V2.0 (August 20, 2008): Added note to the
    Affected Software table and entries to the Frequently Asked
    Questions (FAQ) Related to This Security Update section
    explaining that Microsoft has posted new update packages,
    labeled Version 2, for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003
    Service Pack 2 and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 Service
    Pack 3 to the Microsoft Download Center. Customers who
    manually installed Version 1 of this update from Microsoft
    Download Center need to reinstall Version 2 of this update.
    Customers who have installed this update using Microsoft
    Update or Office Update do not need to reinstall. Also
    removed erroneous mitigations from the vulnerability
    information sections for Memory Allocation Vulnerability -
    CVE-2008-0120 and Memory Calculation Vulnerability -
CVE-2008-0121. 
 - Originally posted: August 12, 2008
 - Updated: August 20, 2008
 - Bulletin Severity Rating: Critical
 - Version: 2.0