December 2010 Security Bulletin Release Advance Notification
14 Dec 2010 by Mother Superior
This ‘Patch Tuesday’ for December 2010, sees the release of 17 bulletins addressing 40 vulnerabilities.
13 bulletins directly affect Windows; only 2 bulletins are considered Critical severity rating.
| Bulletin ID | Maximum Severity Rating and Vulnerability Impact | Restart Requirement | Affected Software |
| Bulletin 1 | Critical | Requires restart | Microsoft Windows, |
| Remote Code Execution | Internet Explorer | ||
| Bulletin 2 | Critical | Requires restart | Microsoft Windows |
| Remote Code Execution | |||
| Bulletin 3 | Important | Requires restart | Microsoft Windows |
| Elevation of Privilege | |||
| Bulletin 4 | Important | May require restart | Microsoft Windows |
| Remote Code Execution | |||
| Bulletin 5 | Important | May require restart | Microsoft Windows |
| Remote Code Execution | |||
| Bulletin 6 | Important | Requires restart | Microsoft Windows |
| Remote Code Execution | |||
| Bulletin 7 | Important | May require restart | Microsoft Windows |
| Remote Code Execution | |||
| Bulletin 8 | Important | May require restart | Microsoft Windows |
| Remote Code Execution | |||
| Bulletin 9 | Important | Requires restart | Microsoft Windows |
| Elevation of Privilege | |||
| Bulletin 10 | Important | Requires restart | Microsoft Windows |
| Elevation of Privilege | |||
| Bulletin 11 | Important | May require restart | Microsoft Windows |
| Elevation of Privilege | |||
| Bulletin 12 | Important | Requires restart | Microsoft Windows |
| Denial of Service | |||
| Bulletin 13 | Important | Requires restart | Microsoft Windows |
| Denial of Service | |||
| Bulletin 14 | Important | May require restart | Microsoft Office |
| Remote Code Execution | |||
| Bulletin 15 | Important | May require restart | Microsoft SharePoint |
| Remote Code Execution | |||
| Bulletin 16 | Important | May require restart | Microsoft Office |
| Remote Code Execution | |||
| Bulletin 17 | Moderate | May require restart | Microsoft Exchange |
| Denial of Service |
We will issue further information on the impact of this months updates once they have been released for testing early next week.
The ‘Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for December 2010′ page here should be referenced for detailed information on how these updates are to affect your servers or solutions when released on 14th December (as usual, as a UKFast customer, you benefit from these updates being applied automatically unless you have opted out of this service.)
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