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MS Patch Tuesday heads-up: 14 bulletins, 34 vulnerabilities

By | August 5, 2010, 11:35am PDT

Summary: According to Microsoft’s advance notice for the August batch of patches, eight of the bulletins carry a “critical” severity rating.

Microsoft is planning a very busy Patch Tuesday this month: 14 bulletins with 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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Ryan Naraine is a journalist and social media enthusiast specializing in Internet and computer security issues. He is currently security evangelist at Kaspersky Lab, an anti-malware company with operations around the globe. He is taking a leadership role in developing the company's online community initiative around secure content management technologies.

Prior to joining Kaspersky Lab, Ryan was Editor-at-Large/Security at eWEEK, leading the magazine's and Web site's coverage of Internet and computer security issues and managing the popular SecurityWatch blog, covering the daily threats, vulnerabilities and IT security technologies. He also covered IT security, hacker attacks and secure content management topics for Jupiter Media's internetnetnews.com.

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