Microsoft Security Bulletin for October
October 23, 2008 by Milo Riano
Filed under Computers
Microsoft is releasing their October patch with a Maximum Security Rating of Critical. The impact of vulnerability is “Remote Code Execution”. As described in the Microsoft site:
Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification issued: October 22, 2008
Microsoft Security Bulletin to be issued: October 23, 2008
This is an advance notification of an out-of-band security bulletin that Microsoft is intending to release on October 23, 2008.
This bulletin advance notification will be replaced with the revised October bulletin summary on October 23, 2008. The revised bulletin summary will include the out-of-band security bulletin as well as the security bulletins already released on October 14, 2008.
For more information about the bulletin advance notification service, see Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification.
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Microsoft is hosting a webcast to address customer questions on this out-of-band security bulletin on October 23, 2008, at 1:00 PM Pacific Time (US & Canada). Register now for the Out-of-Band Security Bulletin Webcast. After this date, this webcast is available on-demand. For more information, see Microsoft Security Bulletin Summaries and Webcasts.
Microsoft also provides information to help customers prioritize monthly security updates with any non-security, high-priority updates that are being released on the same day as the monthly security updates. Please see the section, Other Information.
The Microsoft security bulletin is found here.
