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Six-pack of fixes set for Patch Tuesday

By Barry Collins

Posted on 6 Nov 2009 at 10:12

Microsoft is planning to release half a dozen fixes for this month's Patch Tuesday, three of which are rated as critical.

The six-pack of November fixes is a welcome relief after last month's record-breaking Patch Tuesday, which included no fewer than 13 bulletins covering 34 individual vulnerabilities.

Four of this month's bulletins affect various flavours of Windows, although not the newly-released Windows 7. The two other patches affect both the Windows and Mac versions of Microsoft Office.

All bar one of the patches deal with remote code execution exploits, with the other one dealing with a potential denial-of-service attack.

All of the Windows patches will require systems to be rebooted after installation.

You can get the full details of November's Patch Tuesday from Microsoft's Security Bulletin.

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Toolbox of fixes set for Patch Tuesday

Wrong picture maybe?

By peterm2k on 6 Nov 2009

Correct Me If I'm Wrong

"The two other patches affect both the Windows and Mac versions of Microsoft Office."

AND

"All bar one of the patches deal with remote code execution exploits, with the other one dealing with a potential denial-of-service attack. "

Can someone just tell me does this technically mean that MACs running office without these updates could be susceptible to either execution exploits or a DoS attack if someone were to write something to take advantage of the vulnerabilities?

By koshthetrekkie on 6 Nov 2009

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