11 Security Bulletins for April’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday

This Tuesday, Microsoft will be releasing 11 security bulletins addressing 25 vulnerabilities. Some of the main vulnerabilities that are going to be patched are:

The VBScript Internet Explorer Help File vulnerability
The SMB flaw that can crash Windows 7 / Server 2008 R2 remotely (Disclosed way back in November 2009)

Along with these security patches, there will also be a few non-security patches marked as high-priority that affect Microsoft Update. An updated version of the Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool will also be released.

The exact breakdown of the bulletins is as follows:

Bulletin 1: Critical (Remote Code Execution) – Affects Windows
Bulletin 2: Critical (Remote Code Execution) – Affects Windows
Bulletin 3: Critical (Remote Code Execution) – Affects Windows
Bulletin 4: Critical (Remote Code Execution) – Affects Windows
Bulletin 5: Critical (Remote Code Execution) – Affects Windows
Bulletin 6: Important (Elevation of Privilege) – Affects Windows
Bulletin 7: Important (Remote Code Execution) – Affects Windows
Bulletin 8: Important (Remote Code Execution) – Affects Office
Bulletin 9: Important (Denial of Service) – Affects Windows & Exchange
Bulletin 10: Important (Remote Code Execution) – Affects Office
Bulletin 11: Moderate (Spoofing) – Affects Windows

For further reading on the patches to be released, check out the Microsoft Security Bulletin page.

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Computer Too Slow Repair says:

April 9th, 2010 at 9:23 am

Thanks for the update. I will make sure to run all MS updates on all my PCs on Tuesday.

Internet Age says:

April 12th, 2010 at 12:51 am

If people would just timeously apply updates they would save themselves loads of hassles. Getting the sheeple to acknowledge and understand this concept is another issue altogether….what can I say?