<p>Microsoft Tuesday addressed a serious graphics zero-day vulnerability and a bevy of critical vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer in its latest round of security patches.</p><p>The February 2013 Patch Tuesday updates included both server and client side products. The software giant issued 12 bulletins, five critical, addressing 57 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Office, IE, Exchange and the .NET Framework.</p><p>The company repaired a remote code execution zero-day vulnerability in the Windows implementation of Vector Markup Language, an XML-based file format used by IE to display two-dimensional graphics. The flaw was detected following an attack used to gather information, vulnerability management experts said. According to the MS13-010 bulletin, an attacker would need to trick a victim into viewing a malicious Web page and pass a malicious file into IE's rendering engine. The update impacts all currently supported versions of IE.</p><p>[Related: Adobe Issues Emergency Patch For Flash Player Zero-Day Flaws]</p><p><a href="http://www.crn.com/news/security/240148404/microsoft-fixes-critical-exchange-server-internet-explorer-flaws.htm">Keep reading...</a></p>