Microsoft has issued a security bulletin for the Internet Explorer browser.
According to Microsoft, the October security update involves one public and eight privately reported vulnerabilities experienced in Internet Explorer.
The worst of the "severe" vulnerabilities included one to remote code execute varying if the user enters a "specially crafted webpage."
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"An attacker who successfully exploited the most severe of these vulnerabilities could gain the same user rights as the current user. 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," noted Microsoft.
The security update has been labeled as "Critical" for Internet Explorer versions 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 on Window clients while "Moderate" for the same browser versions on Windows servers.
A "Critical" label represents a "vulnerability whose exploitation could allow code execution without user interaction. These scenarios include self-propagating malware (e.g. network worms), or unavoidable common use scenarios where code execution occurs without warnings or prompts," according to the bulletin.
"Most customers have automatic updating enabled and will not need to take any action because this security update will be downloaded and installed automatically. Customers who have not enabled automatic updating need to check for updates and install this update manually," added Microsoft, stating Windows users can check on automatic updating on Microsoft's Knowledge Base Article 294871.
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