Microsoft Patch Tuesday: Expect 7 Bulletins, 4 Critical
Microsoft plans to release seven security bulletins next week, including patches for critical bugs in Windows, Internet Explorer and Office.
Four of the bulletins address critical vulnerabilities, which is Microsoft’s highest security threat classification.
The other three, according to Microsoft, are rated important, which is the second-highest rating.
While Microsoft said in its Security Bulletin Advance Notification that there will be seven bulletins, there’s no word on how many actual vulnerabilities will be fixed.
This month’s Patch Tuesday comes on October 9, 2007.
Three of the bulletins address flaws in Windows Vista, two of them are critical.
The online advisory also noted that the four critical bulletins all address remote execution problems.
The critical bulletins cover flaws in Office, Windows, the Internet Explorer browser, Outlook Express, and Windows Mail.
One important bulletin deals with a denial-of-service problem in Windows, while another one addresses a Windows flaw that enables spoofing.
The third important bulletin handles an elevation of privileges bug in Windows and Office.
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