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Bulletin severity for October bulletins

Bulletin severity is an interesting topic to many blog readers. We often hear that you think a bulletin should be rated higher or lower. Sometimes we even hear one person suggesting a higher rating and another suggesting a lower rating for the same issue.

MS08-065 : Exploitable for remote code execution?

Today, we released MS08-065 to fix an issue in MSMQ. You’ll notice that the bulletin was rated “Important” and indicates that remote code execution is possible. However, we would like to show you that in practice the severity of the fixed issue is limited

MS08-030: All bark and no bite? The case of the Bluetooth update

This morning we released a critical update for Windows addressing a vulnerability in the Microsoft Bluetooth stack (MS08-030). The bulletin is rated Critical since it allows an attacker to corrupt memory in the Windows kernel, which theoretically could
 
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