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Assessing risk for the August 2014 security updates

Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Today we released nine security bulletins addressing 37 unique CVE’s. Two bulletins have a maximum severity rating of Critical while the other seven have a maximum severity rating of Important. This table is designed to help you prioritize the deployment of updates appropriately for your environment. Bulletin Most likely attack vector Max Bulletin Severity Max exploit-ability Likely first 30 days impact Platform mitigations and key notes MS14-051(Internet Explorer) Victim browses to a malicious webpage.

Assessing risk for the July 2014 security updates

Tuesday, July 08, 2014

Today we released six security bulletins addressing 29 unique CVE’s. Two bulletins have a maximum severity rating of Critical, three have maximum severity Important, and one is Moderate. We hope that the table below helps you prioritize the deployment of the updates appropriately for your environment. Bulletin Most likely attack vector Max Bulletin Severity Max exploit-ability Likely first 30 days impact Platform mitigations and key notes MS14-037(Internet Explorer) Victim browses to a malicious webpage.

Assessing risk for the January 2014 security updates

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Today we released four security bulletins addressing six CVE’s. All four bulletins have a maximum severity rating of Important. We hope that the table below helps you prioritize the deployment of the updates appropriately for your environment. Bulletin Most likely attack vector Max Bulletin Severity Max exploit-ability rating Likely first 30 days impact Platform mitigations and key notes MS14-002(NDProxy, a kernel-mode driver) Attacker able to run code at a low privilege level inside an application sandbox exploits this vulnerability to elevate privileges to SYSTEM.

Assessing risk for the November 2013 security updates

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Today we released eight security bulletins addressing 19 CVE’s. Three bulletins have a maximum severity rating of Critical while the other five have a maximum severity rating of Important. We hope that the table below helps you prioritize the deployment of the updates appropriately for your environment. Bulletin Most likely attack vector Max Bulletin Severity Max Exploit-ability Likely first 30 days impact Platform mitigations and key notes MS13-090(ActiveX killbit) Victim browses to a malicious webpage.

Assessing risk for the October 2013 security updates

Tuesday, October 08, 2013

Today we released eight security bulletins addressing 25 CVE’s. Four bulletins have a maximum severity rating of Critical while the other four have a maximum severity rating of Important. We hope that the table below helps you prioritize the deployment of the updates appropriately for your environment. Bulletin Most likely attack vector Max Bulletin Severity Max Exploit-ability Likely first 30 days impact Platform mitigations and key notes MS13-080(Internet Explorer) Victim browses to a malicious webpage.

Assessing risk for the September 2013 security updates

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Today we released thirteen security bulletins addressing 47 CVE’s. Four bulletins have a maximum severity rating of Critical while the other ten have a maximum severity rating of Important. We hope that the table below helps you prioritize the deployment of the updates appropriately for your environment. Bulletin Most likely attack vector Max Bulletin Severity Max Exploit-ability Likely first 30 days impact Platform mitigations and key notes MS13-069(Internet Explorer) Victim browses to a malicious webpage.

MS13-068: A difficult-to-exploit double free in Outlook

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

MS13-068 addresses a memory corruption vulnerability accessible by simply previewing a message in the Outlook Preview Pane. As such, we’ve rated this security vulnerability as Critical and we encourage customers to deploy the security update. However, in this case, we believe this particular vulnerability will be difficult to exploit for code execution.

Assessing risk for the August 2013 security updates

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Today we released eight security bulletins addressing 23 CVE’s. Three bulletins have a maximum severity rating of Critical while the other five have a maximum severity rating of Important. We hope that the table below helps you prioritize the deployment of the updates appropriately for your environment. Bulletin Most likely attack vector Max Bulletin Severity Max Exploit-ability Index Likely first 30 days impact Platform mitigations and key notes MS13-059(Internet Explorer) Victim browses to a malicious webpage.

Assessing risk for the May 2013 security updates

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Today we released ten security bulletins addressing 33 CVE’s. Two of the bulletins have a maximum severity rating of Critical, and eight have a maximum severity rating of Important. We hope that the table below helps you prioritize the deployment of the updates appropriately for your environment. Bulletin Most likely attack vector Max Bulletin Severity Max Exploit-ability Likely first 30 days impact Platform mitigations and key notes MS13-038(Internet Explorer 8) Victim browses to a malicious webpage.

Assessing risk for the April 2013 security updates

Tuesday, April 09, 2013

Today we released nine security bulletins addressing 13 CVE’s. Two of the bulletins have a maximum severity rating of Critical, and seven have a maximum severity rating of Important. We hope that the table below helps you prioritize the deployment of the updates appropriately for your environment. Bulletin Most likely attack vector Max Bulletin Severity Max Exploit-ability Index Likely first 30 days impact Platform mitigations and key notes MS13-028(Internet Explorer) Victim browses to a malicious webpage.