Patch Tuesday April 2011 – Preview

Source: Qualys The Laws of Vulnerabilities

Microsoft announced today it will release 17 security bulletins on the April 12 Patch Tuesday which will address a total of 64 vulnerabilities. Nine bulletins are rated as critical and the remaining eight are rated as important. The vulnerabilities affect Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, Visual Studio, .NET Framework and GDI+. Microsoft will provide a fix for the MHTML vulnerability which we discussed earlier and more details are included in Security Advisory 2501696. Microsoft will also include a fix for the SMB Browser issue that was publicly disclosed on February 15.

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