Two critical fixes for Patch Tuesday

 

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By Miya Knights

Posted on 6 Feb 2009 at 14:31

This month's Patch Tuesday will bring four security updates, with two of them rated critical.

The critical updates, due 10 February, will address flaws in Internet Explorer and Exchange Server, though further details will not be made available until the patches go live.

The bulletin preview, published on the TechNet security website, also includes important updates for Microsoft SQL Server and its Office Visio technical drawing application.

Despite its less severe rating, the SQL update may tackle a code injection flaw that hit the headlines late last year. The software giant issued an initial patch for it in September after a researcher claimed to have highlighted the issue in April.

Security experts have speculated that it is the same flaw because the affected software list for next Tuesday's SQL update matches those products listed in Microsoft's alert on the SQL flaw, issued last December.