Today's Microsoft "Patch Tuesday" brings six security bulletins that patch vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Office, Internet Explorer and the Microsoft .NET Framework. It is the first regular patch day for Microsoft's newest operating system Windows 8 and Windows RT. Both systems are affected by three of the five bulletins that affect Windows or software built-in to Windows, just like Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 are. Windows Vista and Windows 7, as well as the server based operating systems Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2, are addressed by all five Windows-related bulletins.
Four of the Windows related bulletins have received a maximum severity rating of critical, the highest possible rating. This means that at least one version of windows is affected by vulnerabilities describes in the bulletin as critical. The fifth Windows related bulletin has received a vulnerability rating of moderate, while the Office related bulletin one of important.
The following bulletins have been released by Microsoft in November 2012:
Microsoft recommends to address bulletins MS12-071 and MS12-075 first, before bulletins MS12-074, MS12-072 and MS12-076 are deployed.
Windows Update should have picked up the available security updates by now. You may need to click on check for updates to run a manual check for updates.
Security updates are not available yet on Microsoft's Download Center. It usually takes an hour or two before all updates are released on the download center for manual download and deployment.
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This is just horrible. Copy & Paste division must be the biggest division
at Microsoft. ALL critical security updates for Windows 8, Windows RT,
Server 2012, were copied from Windows 2000/NT/XP and embedded
in Windows XP, Vista, 7, Server 2003, 2008, 2008r2.
After so many years in IT/ security, I still find this incompetence to be unbelievable.
p.s Starting next month Adobe will release Flash updates on the same date as Microsoft’s
security updates (second Tuesday of the month).
I know you guys usually only talk about the security side of these updates, but what are these 2 optional updates, Kernel-Mode Driver Framework version 1.11 update & User-Mode Driver Framework version 1.11 update? Worth installing or not?
The Framework is for drivers only that use it. Do you have a previous version of the Framework installed? If you do not, I would not install.
Nope, I don’t think so. But if I don’t have it it’s strange that they would show up in the Windows Updates then.
Thanks Martin, For again making Cristal clear again where main updates ( 18 this mount) where all about.