Microsoft is issuing 4 bulletins for Patch Tuesday this month which will fix 22 vulnerabilities.

Compared to June’s Patch Tuesday 16 security bulletins, this month Microsoft has issued almost one-fourth of the numbers. But this four bulletins will patch a huge number of vulnerabilities, 22 to be exact. Out of the four updates, one is rated “critical,” while the other three is marked “important.”

Three bulletins will update and fix Windows, while the fourth one will fix a number of vulnerabilities in Visio 2003. The critical Windows bulletin and the important Office update both fix remote code execution issues; the other two important Windows fixes resolve elevation of privilege flaws. All the three Windows updates needs a reboot to apply, though the Office update may need a reboot. [Read more...]

Microsoft has issued an advanced security bulletin notification for June 2011 Patch Tuesday.

Unlike last month’s only two bulletins, this month Microsoft has issued 16 bulletins, covering a range of security holes in the Windows operating system, .NET Framework, Silverlight, Forefront Threat Management Gateway, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office, SQL Server and Visual Studio.

Nine of the 16 security bulletins are rated “critical” by Microsoft and almost all of them requires a system restart. The rest seven bulletins are rated ”Important.” The 9 critical bulletins are for a remote code execution vulnerability. And out of the 9, two of the critical bulletins will address severe vulnerabilities in the Internet Explorer web browser. This month will include a critical security patch for the latest Internet Explorer 9 web browser. [Read more...]