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Update IE 11.0.1 to Windows Update

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The November cumulative security update for Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 is available on Windows Update. It fixes one publicly known vulnerability and ten potentially dangerous vulnerabilities that were reported in time before they were publicly disclosed. The most serious vulnerabilities relate to remote code execution if a user visits an attacker’s website. The user can then gain the same rights as the user. This can happen just by processing the CSS file.

Users with UAC (User Account Control) enabled are better protected against attacks. The update is on Windows Update, so you don't need to take any special action if you have automatic updates enabled. Otherwise, I recommend deploying this update as soon as possible, because the most vulnerable systems are in the time between the disclosure of the vulnerability and the installation of the security update.

The update is rated critical for Windows Client and Recommended for Windows Server.

An update to Adobe Flash Player for Internet Explorer 10 and 11 for Windows 8 and 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 has also been released and is rated as critical.

Among the updates is also a new version of ActiveX Kill Bits, which takes care of disabling ActiveX components in Internet Explorer that do not appear to be safe or are outdated.

For more information, see MS13-088, MS13-090 , and APSB13-26.

I wrote the article for TechNet Blog CZ/SK.