Yesterday's Patch Tuesday brought 13 security bulletins fixing a total of 19 different vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft products.
The majority of security patches have been released for Microsoft's Windows operating system and Microsoft Office, with a cumulative security update released for Internet Explorer as well.
The updates are already available on Windows Update and via the Microsoft Download Center for users who prefer to download them separately. A DVD Iso image has also been released with December's security updates.
Microsoft recommends to focus the attention on the MS11-092 – Windows Media and MS11-087 – Windows critical updates before installing the remaining patches.
The bulletin deployment priority table, and severity and exploitability index provide further assistance.
Here is a list of all bulletins released in December 2011 by Microsoft.
The next upcoming scheduled security update will be on the 10th of January 2012.
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Great, just updated!!!!
I think that I have read somewhere that this year Microsoft again had a significant raise of patches. It sure feels like it. Anyway 13 patches is a least leas than the 19 Microsoft was expecting this month. Thanks again for this mount overview.
Thanks, Martin, for the detailed info. I had not heard before that it was recommended to apply MS11-092 and MS11-2087 before the others.
Actually, I got 16 Patches at 94.4mb, which I found to be totally ridiculous!!!
Fortunately, I only installed 10 of them, which I deemed to be necessary, while the others were totally bogus!!
At the rate Microsoft is going, users will need a 1tb hard drive, just for Windows, by the time Windows 9 is released and another hard drive for the programs and apps!!
If they build their O/S right the first time and made it more secure, none, if very few of these monthly Patches would be necessary!
Originaly there were 14 update packages but no. 14 braked third party applications so it was omitted.
Patch MS11-087 is the trojan Duqu patch and it brakes creating PDF files !!!.
Oh the typos :-)
Break… of course.
Interesting. When browsing through Windows 7 update history ALL updates, even the critical, are marked as Important.