July 10 2012 Patch Tuesday

Patch Tuesday will be July 10, 2012 (Today). Microsoft stated that it will release nine bulletins addressing 16 vulnerabilities.

This month, very computer on your network will receive an update. This is what we expect:

    3 bulletins are rated as Critical
    6 bulletins are rated as Important
    5 bulletins addressing vulnerabilities that could lead to Remote Code Execution
    3 bulletins addressing vulnerabilities that could lead to Elevation of Privilege
    1 bulletin addressing vulnerabilities that could lead to Information Disclosure

Affected Products:

    All supported versions of Microsoft Operating Systems - XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server
    Microsoft Internet Explorer 9
    All supported versions of Microsoft Office products (2003, 2007, 2010)
    Microsoft InfoPath 2007, 2010
    Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007, 2010
    Microsoft Groove Server 2010
    Microsoft SharePoint Services 3.0
    Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010
    Microsoft Office Web Apps 2010
    Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications
    Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications SDK

Most likely, Microsoft will patch a vulnerability that has received limited zero-day attacks.  In June Microsoft released Security Advisory KB2719615  admitting to a vulnerability in MSXML that had previously received limited attacks.  This Patch Tuesday, we will pay particular attention to see if Microsoft releases additional fixes for Zero-Day vulnerabilities.

Bottom line: Make sure you restart your computers Tuesday and Wednesday morning

In addition, none of our customer computers or servers were affected by DNS Changer Malware!!!