14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft has released a total of nine different bulletins as part of its monthly Patch Tuesday cycle, trying to fix vulnerabilities it found in Windows, Internet Explorer, and other software solutions in its product range.
Two of the bulletins are rated as “critical” and concern security flaws in Microsoft Internet Explorer and Windows Remote Desktop Client.
As far as IE users are concerned, the MS13-028 security update was released to address two different bugs in Microsoft’s in-house browser that would allow an attacker to gain the same rights as the logged in user, with the help of a specially crafted website.
The Windows Remote Desktop Client patch, labeled MS13-029, fixes a hole that could “allow remote code execution if an attacker convinces a customer to view a website containing specially crafted content that exploits it.”
In both cases, these issues were privately disclosed and no attacks have been reported.
As usual, all patches are delivered to Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 and RT computers via the integrated Windows Update, so you’re recommended to install all of them as soon as possible.