So far we have four bulletins announced for September 2014, one Critical and three Important. Back in August Microsoft put a hard deadline on implementing the Update 1 (KB2919355) for Windows 8.1 and Server 2012 R2, making it so users need to install Update 1 in order to keep their systems updated.

The first patch Microsoft will be rolling out is for Internet Explorer and is Critical. For the past few months we have seen large numbers of vulnerabilities primarily around memory corruption and memory leaks being resolved in IE. It’s likely we are going to see a continuation of that trend that started back in June, but it’s probably going to be a fairly clean month for IE.

Of the three Important updates, there are two vulnerabilities that could result in a denial of service attack and one that could result in an elevation of privileges. These bulletins affect .Net Framework, the Windows Operating System and Lync Server. The .Net update is going to be the most important thing here and IT managers should make sure they are testing it adequately before rolling it out.

On the third party front, we are expecting an update from Opera any time now. They have updated their change log, but the new version (24) has not yet been made available on their downloads.

For Adobe we anticipate an update for Flash to be quite likely this month. So far in 2014 there has only been one patch Tuesday without a Flash update and that month there were two updates outside of patch Tuesday, one of which was a Zero Day. If there is a Flash release, you can expect a Microsoft Advisory update for IE to update the Flash plug-in and most likely a Google Chrome update to support the plug-in as well.

Microsoft Security Bulletins:

  • 1 bulletin is rated as Critical.
  • 3 bulletins are rated as Important

Vulnerability Impact:

  • 1 bulletin addresses vulnerabilities which could allow Remote Code Execution.
  • 2 bulletins address vulnerabilities which could result in a Denial of Service.
  • 1 bulletin addresses vulnerabilities which could allow Elevation of Privileges.

Affected Products:

  • All supported Windows Operating Systems.
  • All supported Internet Explorer versions.
  • .Net Framework.
  • Lync Server.

Join us as we review the Microsoft and third-party releases for September Patch Tuesday in our next monthly Patch Tuesday webcast, which is scheduled for Wednesday, September 10th at 11 a.m. CDT.  We will also discuss other product and patch releases since the August Patch Tuesday.

You can register for the Patch Tuesday webinar here.