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Update released for MS09-054
The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) — Today we released an update 976749 that addresses two issues with MS09-054 that a limited number customers reported to us through our Customer Service and Support (CSS) group.  These two issues can affect the proper display of web pages. For additional details, please refer to Microsoft Knowledge Base article 976749. Security update MS09-054 was released as part of the October ...

Microsoft re-patches last month's critical IE update
Netflash — ... , the update that patched four vulnerabilities, all "critical," in Internet Explorer (IE). According to Christopher Budd, a spokesman for the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC), the follow-on hotfix patches Web page display problems introduced by the update. Budd downplayed the severity of the problems, saying that the number of users affected was "limited." A document on Microsoft's support site outlined the two issues, one that scrambles Web page elements, while the other spawns a "Type Mismatch" script error on sites that use VBScript or a mix of VBScript and ...

Microsoft Issues Bug Fix For Recent Internet Explorer Update
Security Watch — ... Microsoft says that the number of users affected by these problems is "limited" (as opposed to "unlimited"?). You can download the update to the update from this Microsoft support page, but it is also being distributed through Windows Update.

Microsoft fixes bugs in two of its critical October security patches
Microsoft Subnet's blog — ... to fix bugs in the patches. But at least one buggy patch, which breaks Office Communication Server, has not yet been fixed. The two revised patches are MS09-054 , which fixes a critical hole in Internet Explorer and ...

Critical Windows Security Bulletins on Tap For Patch Tuesday
eWeek - RSS Feeds — ... . “The Office bulletins may not require a restart if the components being updated are not in use." Earlier this week, Microsoft updated security bulletin MS09-054, which dealt with four vulnerabilities within Internet Explorer. The bulletin was part of a massive release of fixes Microsoft pushed out last month. The update for the bulletin fixed two issues that can affect the proper display of web pages. The upcoming bulletins will be released Nov. 10. Sheldon Malm, senior director of security strategy at Rapid7, predicted the most critical issue will be bulletin three, which ...

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