Updated: July 11, 2020 (October 17, 2005)

Sept. and Oct. 2005 Security Updates

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Oct. 2005’s “Patch Tuesday” included three critical and four important patches for vulnerabilities in Microsoft software. Customers need to deploy at least two of these patches as soon as possible: a cumulative patch for Internet Explorer (IE), announced in Sept. 2005 and then delayed for additional testing, already has publicly circulating exploits, and a critical patch for vulnerabilities in the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator and COM+ could be exploited by a worm similar to Zotob, which harmed a large number of unpatched systems in Aug. 2005.

October Patches

Three critical patches released in Oct. 2005 fix vulnerabilities in Windows, including the following:

An unchecked buffer in DirectShow, which is used for streaming media on Windows and by applications including DVD players, video editors, video converters, MP3 players, and digital video capture
An unchecked buffer in the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC) and a problem with the manner in which

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