Microsoft has released this month's security patches for their operating systems and applications.
The patches and updates are already available via Windows Update and Microsoft Download, and it is recommended to update the operating system as soon as possible to protect it from exploits targeting those vulnerabilities.
A total of nine bulletins have been released by Microsoft of which four have received a maximum vulnerability impact rating of critical, the highest possible rating.
As usual, not all operating systems and applications are affected with the same severity. Microsoft's latest desktop operating system Windows 7 for instance is either not affected by the critical vulnerabilities, or with a lower severity of important.
Below are the vulnerability summaries for all nine bulletins that have been released by Microsoft in September 2010:
Microsoft's Jerry Bryant has posted graphs for the deployment priority and severity exportability index in a blog post.
Happy patching everyone.
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Thanks for the detailed info Martin, I’m using your MS patching articles at work on a monthly basis as I’m responsible for the release management (including patches), which includes monthly communication on our intranet for 3000 employees. So thanks for these summaries, they are really useful !
You are welcome. I always find it handy to have an overview at hand as well. Great that I’m not the only one ;)
I think that Microsoft has secretly “fixed” some DLL Injection problems as well as on myIBM Thinkpad + Win XP SP3 the update has broken 2 Thinkpad applications TP4SERV (trackpoint application) and TPKmapAP (keyboard configuration). In both cases a DLL file has vanished.
Thanks again Martin i am writhing to you like every month for this fairy elaborated explanation of this month path Microsoft day. Ferry handy indeed this detailed information and with the pictures it becomes even more easy to understand.
I can’t access one of my two user profiles after these patches rebooted my system. I haven’t had time yet to roll back the patches one by one until it’s resolved. Anyone else having these problems?
No, I have not experienced that. Which OS are you using? If I were you, I would thoroughly scan my system with several security programs to make sure that no rootkit or other malware is causing this.