14 DAY TRIAL // Even though all eyes have been on Apple’s iPhone 6 launch in the last 24 hours, something very important also happened for Microsoft users, as the company started to roll out this month’s security updates for customers running software such as Windows and Internet Explorer.
The company thus attempted to address a total of 42 common vulnerabilities and exposures in Windows, Internet Explorer, .NET Framework, and Lync Server, which means that all those running these applications on their PCs should deploy the updates as fast as possible.
As usual, patches are being delivered via Windows Update, so you have nothing more to do than to keep your computer connected to the Internet and wait for everything to be downloaded and installed.
Microsoft’s rollout included a total of 4 different bulletins, one of which was rated as critical and was developed to address security vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer.
A little bit of something for everyone
Internet Explorer received the only critical update this month, as Microsoft attempted to repair one publicly disclosed and thirty-six privately reported vulnerabilities in the browser.
The company says that these flaws could allow an attacker to get the same privileges as the logged-in user with the help of a malicious website hosting malware designed to exploit the vulnerabilities.
“The most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted webpage using Internet Explorer. An attacker who successfully exploited these vulnerabilities could gain the same user rights as the current user. Customers whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than those who operate with administrative user rights,” the company explains.
This patch is aimed at absolutely all Internet Explorer versions on the market, including Internet Explorer 6 (IE 6), Internet Explorer 7 (IE 7), Internet Explorer 8 (IE 8), Internet Explorer 9 (IE 9), Internet Explorer 10 (IE 10), and Internet Explorer 11 (IE 11).
No reports on botched updates so far
As you might know from our previous coverage on Patch Tuesday, Microsoft’s updates often caused trouble to users because they broke down essential Windows files, which in the end led to errors or BSODs on a large number of computers.
This time, however, there’s no report regarding a possible botched update, but keep in mind that this month’s Patch Tuesday fixes are only now being delivered to computers across the world.
As usual, it’s better to create a backup or a system restore point before anything else to make sure that your computer is perfectly fine, but we’ll keep you up to date with any problems that users might encounter after installing this month’s updates as well.