October 2008 Advanced Notification

On October 14, 2008, Microsoft is planning to release eleven new security bulletins, four critical, six important and one moderate. Following is a brief break-down of the anticipated updates. Complete details are available in the Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for October 2008.

Critical

• AD Bulletin
  Impact of Vulnerability: remote code execution.
  Affected Software: Microsoft Windows
  
  
• IE Bulletin
  Impact of Vulnerability: remote code execution.
  Affected Software: Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer
  
  
• Excel Bulletin
  Impact of Vulnerability: remote code execution.
  Affected Software: Microsoft Office
  

Important

• Windows 1 Bulletin
  Impact of Vulnerability: elevation of privilege.
  Affected Software: Microsoft Windows.

• Windows 2 Bulletin
  Impact of Vulnerability: elevation of privilege.
  Affected Software: Microsoft Windows.

• Windows 3 Bulletin.
  Impact of Vulnerability: remote code execution.
  Affected Software: Microsoft Windows
  
  
• Windows 4 Bulletin
  Impact of Vulnerability: remote code execution.
  Affected Software: Microsoft Windows
  
  
• Windows 5 Bulletin
  Impact of Vulnerability: elevation of privilege.
  Affected Software: Microsoft Windows
  
  
• Windows 6 Bulletin
  Impact of Vulnerability: remote code execution.
  Affected Software: Microsoft Windows

Moderate

• Office Bulletin
  Impact of Vulnerability: information disclosure.
  Affected Software: Microsoft Office

References:

• Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for October 2008

• October 2008 Advanced Notification

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