Microsoft To Issue Two Emergency Patches Next Week

This is starting to wear on my nerves. This non-stop parade of patches is really tiresome. It would be rather lovely if code could be written well. Then again it makes for job security.

Ugh.

From The Register:

Microsoft plans to issue two emergency patches next week that fix vulnerabilities in the Internet Explorer browser and Visual Studio developer suite that allow attackers to remotely execute malware.

The patches, which will be delivered on Tuesday, will be only the third time Microsoft has issued an out-of-band security patch in the past 25 months. That suggests the updates are serious enough to warrant the extra fuss. Typically, the company issues patches on the second Tuesday of each month to allow administrators time to plan for and test the updates.

According to the bulletin one is for a “moderate” problem with Visual Studio and a “critical” in Internet Exploder Explorer both of which result in remote access. For the advance notification from Microsoft read on.

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Posted by Dave Lewis on July 24, 2009. Filed under OS Security,Patches. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.