A dozen security bulletins coming from Microsoft this month

Stephen Withers
Friday, 04 February 2011 09:56

Business IT - Security

It'll be back to business as usual on this month's Patch Tuesday: Microsoft has warned there will be 12 bulletins addressing 22 issues.

Next Tuesday, US time, Microsoft will release a dozen security bulletins covering Windows and Office. That's a marked change from the unusually low two bulletins in January.

Three of the Windows bulletins are rated critical on at least one version, and that includes Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2. One of the critical bulletins concerns all currently supported versions of Internet Explorer,  the CSS-related flaw disclosed by Microsoft in December 2010 as a public vulnerability.

The February updates will also address the Windows Graphics Rendering Engine issue disclosed in early January. This affects XP, Vista and Server 2003, but not Windows 7 or Server 2008 R2.

There is no indication that the MHTML vulnerability disclosed by Microsoft in late January will be fixed in this month's patches.

The Office update is specific to Visio 2002, 2003 and 2007.

There will also be an updated version of the Malicious Software Removal Tool.