A mega ?Patch Tuesday? has been announced by Microsoft. The update is a record breaker and will deliver 14 security bulletins which will fix 34 vulnerabilities in Windows, IE, Office and Silverlight. The last time this volume of vulnerabilities was addressed was in June 2010, but only 10 bulletins were released.
8 of the 14 bulletins have been classed as ?Critical?, and the other 6 as ?Important?. The patches are to address remote code executions (RCE) and elevation of privileges.
The patches will address flaws in the following:
- Windows XP Service Pack 2 & 3 *
- Windows Vista Service Pack 1 & 2
- Windows 7
- Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2
- Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2
- Microsoft Office XP Service Pack 3
- Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 3
- Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 2
- Microsoft Office for Mac 2004 & 2008
- Open XML File Format Converter for Mac
- Microsoft Office Word Viewer
- Microsoft Office compatibility pack for Word, Excel & PowerPoint 2007
- Microsoft Works 9
- Microsoft Silverlight 2 & 3
* = Windows XP Service Pack 2 will only received limited updates.
The roll out will be Tuesday August 10, 2010.
