October 2007 Microsoft Security Bulletin Release

This alert is to provide you with an overview of the new Security Bulletin being released on 9 October 2007.

New Security Bulletins

Microsoft is releasing the following security bulletins for newly discovered vulnerabilities:

Bulletin Number

Maximum Severity

Affected Products

Impact

MS07-055

Critical

Kodak Image Viewer

Remote Code Execution

MS07-056

Critical

Outlook Express and Windows Mail

Remote Code Execution

MS07-057

Critical

Internet Explorer Cumulative

Remote Code Execution

MS07-060

Critical

Microsoft Word

Remote Code Execution

MS07-058

Important

RPC

Denial of Service

MS07-059

Important

Office SharePoint Server

Elevation of Privilege

Summaries for these new bulletins may be found at the following pages:

https://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms07-oct.mspx

Customers are advised to review the information in the bulletins, test and deploy the updates immediately in their environments, if applicable.