Just when you thought you were in the clear and done with patching..Microsoft is planning a very busy Patch Tuesday this month: 14 bulletins, patches for 34 vulnerabilities in Windows, Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, SQL and Silverlight. According to Microsoft’s advance notice for the August batch of patches, eight of the bulletins carry a “critical” severity rating. The other six are rated “important.” A critical bulletin typically covers vulnerabilities that could be exploited to launch remote code execution or drive-by-download attacks. All versions of Windows are affected by the patches this month — from Windows XP SP3 through Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. The patches will ship on August 10, 2010.
Friday, August 6, 2010
MS Patch Tuesday heads-up: 14 bulletins, 34 vulnerabilities
Just when you thought you were in the clear and done with patching..Microsoft is planning a very busy Patch Tuesday this month: 14 bulletins, patches for 34 vulnerabilities in Windows, Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, SQL and Silverlight. According to Microsoft’s advance notice for the August batch of patches, eight of the bulletins carry a “critical” severity rating. The other six are rated “important.” A critical bulletin typically covers vulnerabilities that could be exploited to launch remote code execution or drive-by-download attacks. All versions of Windows are affected by the patches this month — from Windows XP SP3 through Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. The patches will ship on August 10, 2010.
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