Microsoft Releases Advance Notification for December Security Bulletin

Microsoft has issued a Security Bulletin Advance Notification indicating that its December 2013 release will contain 11 bulletins. These bulletins will have severity ratings of critical and important and will be for Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Lync, Internet Explorer, Microsoft...

Clarification on Security Advisory 2896666 and the ANS for the November 2013 Security Bulletin Release

Today, we’re providing advance notification for the release of eight bulletins, three Critical and five Important, for November 2013. The Critical updates address vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer and Microsoft Windows, and the Important updates address issues in Windows and Office. While this...

Microsoft Releases Advance Notification for November Security Bulletin

Microsoft has issued a Security Bulletin Advance Notification indicating that its November 2013 release will contain eight bulletins. These bulletins will have the severity rating of critical and important and will be for Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, and Microsoft Office. These bulletins...

Microsoft Office Services Remote Code Execution vulnerability (2885089)

This host is missing an important security update according to Microsoft Bulletin MS13-084. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE...

Assessing risk for the October 2013 security updates

Today we released eight security bulletins addressing 25 CVE’s. Four bulletins have a maximum severity rating of Critical while the other four have a maximum severity rating of Important. We hope that the table below helps you prioritize the deployment of the updates appropriately for your...

The October 2013 security updates

This month we release eight bulletins – four Critical and four Important - which address 25 unique CVEs in Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, SharePoint, .NET Framework, Office, and Silverlight. For those who need to prioritize their deployment planning, we recommend focusing on MS13-080,...

Microsoft Releases Advance Notification for October Security Bulletin

Microsoft has issued a Security Bulletin Advance Notification indicating that its October release will contain eight bulletins. These bulletins will have the severity rating of critical and important and will be for Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, .NET Framework, Office, Server Software, an...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday to Fix Three Critical Remote Code Execution vulnerabilities

Yeah, it's Patch Tuesday once again. Almost 10 years ago in October, 2003 - Microsoft invented the process of regularly scheduled security updates on every second Tuesday of the Month, as Patch Tuesday. Today, the Microsoft Security team will issue eight security updates in total, out of that --...

Assessing risk for the August 2013 security updates

Today we released eight security bulletins addressing 23 CVE’s. Three bulletins have a maximum severity rating of Critical while the other five have a maximum severity rating of Important. We hope that the table below helps you prioritize the deployment of the updates appropriately for your...

Internet Explorer vulnerability exposed by Google Researcher used in targeted attacks

Google and Microsoft are at each other's throats again. In a recent statement, Microsoft says hackers have been actively exploiting a vulnerability that was publicly disclosed by a Google researcher, Tavis Ormandy. Microsoft addressed the vulnerability in its monthly "Patch Tuesday" package of...

MS13-056: Vulnerability in Microsoft DirectShow Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2845187)

The remote Windows host is potentially affected by a vulnerability that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a malicious image file. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to gain the same user rights as the local user. C Tenable Network Security, Inc...

Assessing risk for the July 2013 security updates

Today we released seven security bulletins addressing 34 CVE’s. Six bulletins have a maximum severity rating of Critical, and one has a maximum severity rating of Important. We hope that the table below helps you prioritize the deployment of the updates appropriately for your environment. Bulleti...

MS13-041: Vulnerability in Lync Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2834695)

The version of Microsoft Communicator and/or Lync installed on the remote host is potentially affected by a remote code execution if an attacker shares specially crafted content, such as a file or program, as a presentation in Lync or Communicator. C Tenable Network Security, Inc...

Microsoft will roll out fix for two critical flaws in Windows and Internet Explorer

Microsoft has released an advance notification of 9 security bulletins that it plans to release on April 9, 2013. Microsoft said it will patch nine vulnerabilities in total and two of them rated critical and that of the remaining 7 as Important. The critical vulnerabilities are remote code...

Microsoft to Ship 7 Bulletins in March Patch Tuesday Release

Software giant Microsoft plans to ship seven bulletins in the March 2013 edition of Patch Tuesday. Four of the bulletins are receiving high-severity, critical ratings. Three of the four critically rated bulletins that affect Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, Silverlight, Office, and Server...

Microsoft Releases Advance Notification for February Security Bulletin

Microsoft has issued a Security Bulletin Advance Notification indicating that its February release will contain eleven bulletins. These bulletins will have the severity rating of critical and important, and will be for Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, Server Software, and .NET Framework. The...

Patch for IE Zero Day Won't Be Among Microsoft Security Updates Next Week

Microsoft plans to release a pair of critical bulletins on Tuesday for its first round of 2013 monthly security updates, but still has no announcement regarding a patch for the zero day vulnerability and exploit in Internet Explorer reported over the Christmas holiday. Users are urged to apply a...

Microsoft security bulletins for December 2012

With the release of the Microsoft security bulletins for December 2012, Company flag total 7 updates for Windows users, where one is rated as critical that could lead to remote code execution, where as other two are rated as important which fix flaws that could result in the operating system's...

Microsoft to Fix Critical Word Flaw in October Patch Tuesday

Microsoft will release seven bulletins in the October Patch Tuesday next week, fixing 20 total vulnerabilities in Windows, Office, Lync and SQL Server. Only one of the bulletins is rated critical, while the six others are rated important. The one critical bulletin affects Microsoft Office 2003,...

Google engineers Warn Of Serious Unpatched Adobe Reader Flaws

Adobe has missed dozens of vulnerabilities in Reader in this week's Patch Tuesday run according to Google engineers who reported the flaws. Sixteen vulnerabilities still affected the Windows and Mac OS X versions, while 31 critical and "trivially exploitable" bugs were found in the Linux...