14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft plans to resolve no less than 11 security vulnerabilities impacting various products including Windows and Office releases, next week, on September 14, 2010.
The Redmond company is, as always, providing advance notification of the upcoming patches in order for customers to prepare for the deployment of the security updates planned for next Tuesday.
The September 2010 security bulletin releases follow the August patch packages, which addressed a total of 34 vulnerabilities across multiple products.
By comparison with the previous month, the number of security holes which will be plugged in September has dropped dramatically.
“This month we will be releasing 9 bulletins addressing 11 vulnerabilities affecting Windows, Internet Information Services (IIS), and Microsoft Office. Four of those bulletins carry a Critical rating, with the rest rated Important,” revealed Carlene Chmaj, Security Response Communications Manager for Microsoft.
According to information supplied via the Advance Notification Service (ANS), only two of the security bulletins scheduled for release next week impact the Office suite, both of which, however, rated Critical.
Still, for yet another month, customers that are running the latest iteration of the Office system don’t need to concern themselves with the patches.
The software giant made it clear that the upcoming updates impact customers running Office XP Service Pack 3, Office 2003 SP3, and Office 2007 SP2, but not the recently released Office 2010.
Office 2010 was released to manufacturing in April 2010, and hit store shelves worldwide in mid-June. There have been no security updates for Office 2010 since it was introduced to the public earlier this summer.
Customers running Windows 7 will also have a light patch Tuesday. Windows 7 is impacted by just three of the security bulletins coming on September 14, all of which rated only Important.
By contrast, users still running Windows XP will have to deploy no less than eight security bulletins, three of which Critical and the rest Important.