It's that time of the month again. Yes, the time to patch Microsoft products. And Microsoft Office yet again takes the stage. But it saw harsh competition from the Redmond Company's Update platform network that stole the spot light "experiencing" some issues that prevented the release of the security updates via Microsoft Update, Automatic Updates, Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) and Windows Update v6. "To be clear, it's a delay due to the networking for these systems: there are no issues with the security updates themselves. Also, this issue doesn't affect customers using Software Update Services (SUS), Windows Update v4 or Office Update. Technical teams are engaged and have been working around the clock to resolve this problem and we anticipate that updates will be made available via the Microsoft Update platform by end of today October 10," informed the Microsoft Security Response Center Team.

Well, Microsoft did fix the issue by the end of October 10, but the security bulletins are also available here for manual download. Although the Redmond Company had initially announced a total of 11 security bulletins, they managed to reduce the number to 10 due to quality issues related to the unreleased patch. Out of the 10, six have been rated as critical, one is important, two are moderate and vulnerabilities in TCP/IP that could allow for denial of service received a critical rating of low.

The Windows Object Packager, ASP.NET, and the Server Service have rounded up the medium vulnerabilities while Windows Shell, Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, Word, XML Core Services and Office have been plagued by critical vulnerabilities with the possibility of remote code execution.