Microsoft plans to release three security bulletins on Tuesday, May 9, to cover several code execution flaws in Windows and the enterprise-facing Microsoft Exchange messaging and collaboration product.
The patches will carry a "critical" rating and will require a restart after installation, Microsoft said in its advance notification.
Microsoft typically applies a "critical" rating to high-priority vulnerabilities that can be exploited to allow the propagation of an Internet worm without any user action.
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Two of the three bulletins will provide fixes for flaws in the Windows operating system, and it is very likely that a cumulative Internet Explorer fix could be included.
Several major flaws in IE are on the waiting-for-fixes list.
Based on 85 advisories published by Secunia between 2003 and 2005, about 25 percent of IE bugs remain unpatched.
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