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Assessing risk for the March 2013 security updates

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Today we released seven security bulletins addressing 20 CVE’s. Four of the bulletins have a maximum severity rating of Critical, and three 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 MS13-021(Internet Explorer) Victim browses to a malicious webpage.

Assessing risk for the February 2013 security updates

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Today we released twelve security bulletins addressing 57 CVE’s. Five 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 rating Likely first 30 days impact Platform mitigations and key notes MS13-010(VML) Victim browses to a malicious webpage.

Assessing risk for the January 2013 security updates

Tuesday, January 08, 2013

Today we released seven security bulletins addressing 12 CVE’s. Two of the bulletins have a maximum severity rating of Critical, and 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 MS13-002(MSXML) Victim browses to a malicious webpage.

Assessing risk for the November 2012 security updates

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Today we released six security bulletins addressing 19 CVE’s. Four of the bulletins have a maximum severity rating of Critical, one has a maximum severity rating of Important, and one has a maximum severity rating of Moderate. We hope that the table below helps you prioritize the deployment of the updates appropriately for your environment.

Assessing risk for the October 2012 security updates

Tuesday, October 09, 2012

Today we released seven security bulletins addressing 20 CVEs (7 Microsoft and 13 Oracle CVE’s). Only one of the bulletins is rated Critical. 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.

Assessing risk for the August 2012 security updates

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Today we released nine security bulletins addressing 26 CVE’s (13 Microsoft and 13 Oracle CVE’s). Five of the bulletins have a maximum severity rating of Critical and 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.

MS12-054: Not all remote, pre-auth vulnerabilities are equally appetizing for worms..

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

We released security update MS12-054 to address four privately reported issues in Windows networking components failing to properly handle malformed Remote Administration Protocol (RAP) responses. The most severe of these issues, CVE-2012-1851, is a format string vulnerability in the printer spooler service while handling a response message and is a wormable-class vulnerability on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.

Assessing risk for the June 2012 security updates

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Today we released seven security bulletins. Three have a maximum severity rating of Critical and 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 Index Likely first 30 days impact Platform mitigations and key notes MS12-037(Internet Explorer) Victim browses to a malicious webpage.

Assessing risk for the February 2012 security updates

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Today we released nine security bulletins. Four have a maximum severity rating of Critical with the other five having 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 MS12-010(Internet Explorer) Victim browses to a malicious website.

Assessing risk for the January 2012 security updates

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Today we released seven security bulletins. One has a maximum severity rating of Critical with the other six having 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 MS12-004(Windows Media) Victim browses to a malicious website or opens a malicious media file.