Microsoft previews three critical bulletins; two for Office

Microsoft on Thursday previewed three critical bulletins for Microsoft Office and Windows and a moderate denial of service vulnerability for the company's security software.

According to Microsoft's advance notification, the software giant will address the following in its Patch Tuesday update May 13:

• A critical remote code execution vulnerability primarily affecting Microsoft Office (Word) and another critical remote code execution flaw in Publisher. Affected software includes Office 2000, Office XP, Office 2003, Office 2007
• A critical Jet database engine issue that affects Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.
• And a moderate bulletin was issued for a denial of service vulnerability in Windows Live OneCare, Microsoft Antigen, Microsoft Windows Defender, Microsoft Forefront Security.