This coming Tuesday, Microsoft is releasing a slew of patch fixes, 5 of which are rated critical, 7 important and 1 moderate. All of the critical flaws result in remote code execution and 10 of these patches require a system restart. The list of operating systems affected includes everything from Win2k through to Win2k8 R2.
The 17-year old hole reported a week ago is being fixed however the latest IE flaw noted this week is not getting a patch yet. What is worrying, however, is that Redmond says it is still working on a patch for the SMB flaw that can be used crash Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 remotely. That was disclosed three months ago, so the company is lagging quite a bit with that one.
