Two weeks before its regularly scheduled round of security updates for Windows, Microsoft released an out-of-cycle patch for its Internet Explorer browser in response to a month-old critical hole. The vulnerability — an HTML handling issue referred to as an “iframe” flaw that affects mostly older versions of the Windows operating system — is not a problem in Windows XP systems that have been updated with Microsoft’s major security upgrade of this year, Service Pack 2 (SP2), the company said.
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Microsoft Issues Out-of-Cycle Explorer Patch
Posted by: Jay Lyman December 2, 2004 11:18 AMTwo weeks before its regularly scheduled round of security updates for Windows, Microsoft released an out-of-cycle patch for its Internet Explorer browser in response to a month-old critical hole. The vulnerability — an HTML handling issue referred to as an “iframe” flaw that affects mostly older versions of the Windows operating system — is not a problem in Windows XP systems that have been updated with Microsoft’s major security upgrade of this year, Service Pack 2 (SP2), the company said.