Home / bulletins MS06-042: Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (918899) - Version:3.2
Posted on 27 June 2007
Severity Rating: Critical - Revision Note: Bulletin revised due to a new issue discovered with the security update: Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 926840: When you use Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 on a Microsoft Windows XP-based computer that has Service Pack 2 (SP2) installed, an access violation may occur in Mshtml.dll file and Internet Explorer may close unexpectedly. This problem typically occurs when you close a popup window (926840).Summary: This update resolves several newly discovered, publicly and privately reported vulnerabilities. Each vulnerability is documented in its own Vulnerability Details section of this bulletin. If a user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker who successfully exploited the most severe of these vulnerabilities could take complete control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights. We recommend that customers apply the update immediately.
