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Microsoft preps seven bulletins for Patch Tuesday

Critical fixes for Windows, Office, Exchange and more

By Dan Goodin in San Francisco

Posted in Software & Security, 3rd May 2007 20:13 GMT

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Next week's Patch Tuesday from Microsoft will include updates fixing a host of critical vulnerabilities in products that include Windows, Office and Exchange.

In all, Microsoft will release seven bulletins. They include:

As usual, Microsoft will also push an updated version of the Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool, according to the company's Security Bulletin Advance Notification [1] site.

Microsoft isn't specifying what vulnerabilities will be fixed, but it's reasonable conjecture that one update will patch a DNS flaw in Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003 that has been actively exploited [2] for the past three weeks. ®