Patch Tuesday heads-up: 17 bulletins, 64 vulnerabilities
Summary: Microsoft is planning a monster Patch Tuesday next week: 17 bulletins with fixes for 64 documented vulnerabilities across a wide range of Windows products.
Microsoft is planning a monster Patch Tuesday next week: 17 bulletins with fixes for 64 documented vulnerabilities across Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, Visual Studio, .NET Framework and GDI+.
According to Microsoft's advance notice, 9 of the 17 bulletins will be rated "critical," the company's highest severity rating.
This month's batch of patches, due at 1:00 pm Eastern on Tuesday April 12, will include an Internet Explorer browser update that fixes a pair of publicly known security problems:
This month we'll be closing some issues that Microsoft has already previously spoken to, including the SMB Browser (Critical) issue publicly disclosed Feb. 15. Microsoft assessed the situation and reported that although the vulnerability could theoretically allow Remote Code Execution, that was extremely unlikely. To this day, we have seen no evidence of attacks.
We are also planning a fix for the MHTML vulnerability in Windows, rated Important. We alerted people to this issue with Security Advisory 2501696 (including a Fix-It that fully protected customers once downloaded) back in late January. In March, we updated the advisory to let people know we were aware of limited, targeted attacks.
There is no word on whether this IE update will include a fix for the multiple bugs used in the winning CanSecWest Pwn2Own exploit.
All versions of Windows are affected by this batch of updates, including the newest Windows 7.
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It would be nice if, for once...
Closing stable doors is fine...
What does this mean?
Are there any specific "horses" you're referring to?
RE: Patch Tuesday heads-up: 17 bulletins, 64 vulnerabilities
Ever heared of the term "idium"?
What he means in this case is "just as long as the vulnerabilities haven't gone wild for a long period".
Guessing english is your second language :D
RE: Patch Tuesday heads-up: 17 bulletins, 64 vulnerabilities
"Ever heared[sic] of the term "idium[sic]"?"
Guessing english isn't your native tongue, either.
Either MrElectrifyer's reading comprehension is much better than yours
Or you were spoiling for a fight. Again.
Possibly even both.
Did you happen to notice the quotes?
See my response to MrElectrifyer
What I was "spoiling" (see, there are those quotes again) for was you to explain what you meant with your post as it isn't clear to me what you're trying to say.
See MrElectrifyer's response to you.
MrElectrifyer understood my post: a general comment on the time interval between bugs being found and patches being provided.
I had originally planned to suggest that the horses may not have bolted during that time, but may have been replaced by wooden ones instead. And you may contemplate the extra implications of <i>that</i> at your leisure... ;-)
You comment doesn't make sense.
That phrase is used [i]after[/i] some event has happened. To my knowledge there has been no event, hence my question to you.
@Zogg
Nice, very nice! Although you'd be alright if you have a daughter called Cassandra! ;-)
Oh, the irony!!!!
<i>"That phrase is used after some event has happened."</i>
After the horses have bolted, eh :D ??? Don't you think it's <i>always</i> worth patching sooner rather than later? Or have you forgotten the sense of the original post?
Yes, I do.
This still doesn't explain your original post.
RE: Patch Tuesday heads-up: 17 bulletins, 64 vulnerabilities
Patch Tuesday.... Weld? Huh? Where am I?
Percy, I don't blame you for being confused
Someone (who shall remain nameless) has misread / misunderstood some semi-serious banter, and now the point of the original post and my reply to it has been completely buried. Someone else misspelling "idiom" has only added to the confusion...
I fear that only Hercules could possibly unearth the point of this thread now, but seeing as he's still busy cleaning out the Augean stables I suggest we let the thread rest instead.
RE: Patch Tuesday heads-up: 17 bulletins, 64 vulnerabilities
RE: Patch Tuesday heads-up: 17 bulletins, 64 vulnerabilities
The funny thing to me is that Linux updates (at least with the Ubuntu distro) are sent out far more frequently than Windows Updates....the last time I used Ubuntu it seemed that there were new updates to download every time I turned it on....but you point this out to Linux nuts and they say 'Linux is a work in progress'......somehow that's a good enough excuse for Linux...but not Windows.
RE: Patch Tuesday heads-up: 17 bulletins, 64 vulnerabilities
RE: Patch Tuesday heads-up: 17 bulletins, 64 vulnerabilities
Oh, I was going to post something similar.
I heared Macs don't have any problems with viruses so I think they must be the best then. Also, have you heard, the next version will let you run programs full screen! Take that Microsoft!