Patch Tuesday – Yeah It Was Yesterday

Pssst – hey buddy.  Did you hear?  Yesterday was Patch Tuesday. 

I remember when these Tuesday’s were new – there always seemed to be a lot of pre-release stuff.  Now it is so common that the day passes and sometimes can go un-noticed since it has become such an integral part of a Windows users experience.  Even more so if you have updates set to download and install automatically.

Despite the common-ness of this day – they are still coming on the second Tuesday of each month and October 2008 is no exception.  Eleven updates were released including 4 Critical, 6 Important and 1 Moderate:

• Critical
• Vulnerability in Active Directory Could Allow Remote Code Execution (957280)
• Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (956390)
• Vulnerability in Host Integration Server RPC Service Could Allow Remote Code Execution (956695)
• Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Excel Could Allow Remote Code Execution (956416)
• Important
• Vulnerability in the Microsoft Ancillary Function Driver Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (956
• Vulnerabilities in Windows Kernel Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (954211)
• Vulnerability in Windows Internet Printing Service Could Allow Remote Code Execution (953155)
• Vulnerability in SMB Could Allow Remote Code Execution (957095)
• Vulnerability in Virtual Address Descriptor Manipulation Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (956
• Vulnerability in Message Queuing Could Allow Remote Code Execution (951071)
• Moderate
• Vulnerability in Microsoft Office Could Allow Information Disclosure (957699)

Related Posts:

• Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for June 2010 Patch Tuesday
• Security Tuesday Updates Released
• June 2009 Security Updates Advance Notification
• November 2009 Security Updates Released
• August 2010 Patch Tuesday Advance Notice Info Published

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you grab the RSS feed to stay up to date!