14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft will launch the first Patch Tuesday updates of the year next week as part of what seems to be one of the lightest patching cycles in the last few months.
Redmond will thus release four security bulletins for January 2014 to fix issues with Windows 7, Microsoft Word, and SharePoint, but also to patch a zero-day flaw that was recently discovered in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.
“We have only seen this issue used in conjunction with a PDF exploit in targeted attacks and not on its own. This only impacts customers using Windows XP or Server 2003 as more recent Windows versions are not affected,” Microsoft explained.
Surprisingly, none of these updates is marked as critical, which is quite a first for the software giant in many months, as Microsoft rolled out quite a plethora of updates lately.