August 2011 Security Bulletin Release Advance Notification
5 Aug 2011 by Liz Walker
This ‘Patch Tuesday’ for August 2011, sees the release of 13 bulletins addressing 22 vulnerabilities:
Bulletin Breakdown:
- 2 bulletins are rated Critical
- 9 bulletins are rated Important
- 2 bulletins are rated Moderate
- 4 vulnerabilities can lead to Remote Code Execution
- 3 vulnerabilities can lead to Elevation of Privilege
- 3 vulnerabilities can lead to Denial of Service
- 3 vulnerabilities can lead to Information Disclosure
The following table summarises the security bulletins for this month in order of severity.
| Bulletin ID | Maximum Severity Rating and Vulnerability Impact | Restart Requirement | Affected Software |
| Bulletin 1 | Critical | Requires restart | Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer |
| Remote Code Execution | |||
| Bulletin 2 | Critical | Requires restart | Microsoft Windows |
| Remote Code Execution | |||
| Bulletin 3 | *Important | Requires restart | Microsoft Windows |
| Remote Code Execution | |||
| Bulletin 4 | Important | May require restart | Microsoft Office |
| Remote Code Execution | |||
| Bulletin 5 | Important | May require restart | Microsoft Windows |
| Elevation of Privilege | |||
| Bulletin 6 | Important | Requires restart | Microsoft Windows |
| Elevation of Privilege | |||
| Bulletin 7 | Important | Requires restart | Microsoft Windows |
| Elevation of Privilege | |||
| Bulletin 8 | Important | Requires restart | Microsoft Windows |
| Denial of Service | |||
| Bulletin 9 | Important | Requires restart | Microsoft Windows |
| Denial of Service | |||
| Bulletin 10 | Important | May require restart | Microsoft .Net Framework, Microsoft Developer Tools |
| Information Disclosure | |||
| Bulletin 11 | Important | May require restart | Microsoft Developer Tools |
| Information Disclosure | |||
| Bulletin 12 | Moderate | May require restart | Microsoft .Net Framework |
| Information Disclosure | |||
| Bulletin 13 | Moderate | Requires restart | Microsoft Windows |
| Denial of Service |
We will issue further information on the impact of this month’s updates once they have been released for testing from the 9th of August.
The ‘Microsoft Security Bulletin Notification for August 2011‘ page should be referenced for detailed information on how these updates are to affect your servers or solutions when released on 9th August (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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