14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft’s next Patch Tuesday will bring with it a massive collection of security bulletins designed to resolve a record number of vulnerabilities. According to details shared by Pete Voss, a senior response communications manager with Microsoft Trustworthy Computing, the software giant will patch no less than 64 security vulnerabilities across a range of its products.
Customers running supported versions of Windows, Office, Internet Explorer, Visual Studio, .NET Framework and GDI+ will have to deploy updates out of the 17 security bulletins scheduled for release on April 12th, 2011.
Nine of the security bulletins to be releases next week have been rated Critical, with the rest deemed just Important.
“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,” Voss said.
“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.”
Customers running the recently released Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) RTM will have to deploy no less than eight Critical security bulletins, including one designed to resolve issues in Internet Explorer 8.
According to Microsoft, customers that upgraded to Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) RTW, launched globally in mid-March 2011, will not have to deploy any updates for their browser, since only IE8 and earlier versions are impacted by the Critical IE security bulletin.
Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) RTM Build 7601.17514.101119-1850 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) RTM are available for download here.
Windows Internet Explorer 9 RTW for Windows 7 and Windows 7 SP1 is available for download here.
Windows Internet Explorer 9 RTW for Windows Vista SP2 and Windows Server 2008 SP2 is available for download here.
Windows Internet Explorer 9 RTW for Windows Vista SP2 64-bit edition and Windows Server 2008 SP2 64-bit edition is available for download here.
Windows Internet Explorer 9 RTW for Windows 7 64-bit edition, Windows 7 SP1 64-bit edition, Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit edition and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 64-bit edition is available for download here.