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Assessing risk for the December 2013 security updates

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Today we released eleven security bulletins addressing 24 CVE’s. Five bulletins have a maximum severity rating of Critical while the other six 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 XI Likely first 30 days impact Platform mitigations and key notes MS13-096(GDI+ TIFF parsing) Victim opens malicious Office document.

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 July 2013 security updates

Tuesday, July 09, 2013

Today we released seven security bulletins addressing 34 CVE’s. Six bulletins have a maximum severity rating of Critical, and one has 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 MS13-055(Internet Explorer) Victim browses to a malicious webpage.

Assessing risk for the June 2013 security updates

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Today we released five security bulletins addressing 23 CVE’s. One bulletin has a maximum severity rating of Critical, and 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 rating Likely first 30 days impact Platform mitigations and key notes MS13-047(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.