Extra-large crop of updates for Patch Tuesday

Fourteen security alerts from Microsoft join two from Adobe.

Microsoft

‘s monthly Patch Tuesday security bulletins came out this week, featuring a chunky 14 separate alerts with many covering multiple issues. Eight of the new alerts were rated ‘Critical’, with the remaining six marked as ‘Important’. In addition to

Microsoft

‘s updates,

Adobe

also released a trio of fixes, with two labelled ‘Critical’ and the third ‘Important’.

Of the issues addressed by this batch of

Microsoft

patches, the most significant affect

Word

,

SMB Server

,

.NET

,

XML Core Services

and

MPEG Codecs

. The release also includes the usual batch of fixes for problems with

Internet Explorer

. An out-of-band update to fix the serious vulnerability involving .lnk files, released last week, was also included in the bulletin. Full details are at

Microsoft


here

, with a blog entry covering the release

here

and a summary from

SANS


here

.

Adobe

‘s update release, timed to coincide with Patch Tuesday, included critical fixes for

Flash Player

and

Flash Media Server

, and an important HotFix for

ColdFusion

. Full details are at

Adobe


here

, with another

SANS

summary

here

.

Users of

Adobe

‘s popular

Reader

software will have to wait a little longer for another patch, due to be released as an emergency update next week, according to

reports

. Meanwhile, those who choose to go with the alternative PDF viewer from

Foxit Software

will have to update to cover the same vulnerability which

affects

users of

Apple

‘s

iPhone

– their announcement is

here

. For once,

Adobe

users are not affected by the vulnerability.

Posted on 12 August 2010 by

Virus Bulletin