Well, here is the news. Microsoft is preparing to release real big bag of patches for next patch Tuesday for April. This is a big change from March where Microsoft released only 3 bulletins. April batch of fixes will have in total 17 bulletins that will cover and fix around 64 different vulnerabilities in MS operating systems. Here is the preliminary list scheduled for next Tuesday:
Bulletin ID |
Maximum Severity Rating and Vulnerability Impact |
Restart Requirement |
Affected Software |
Bulletin 1 |
Critical |
Requires restart |
Microsoft Windows, |
Bulletin 2 |
Critical |
Requires restart |
Microsoft Windows |
Bulletin 3 |
Critical |
Requires restart |
Microsoft Windows |
Bulletin 4 |
Critical |
May require restart |
Microsoft Windows |
Bulletin 5 |
Critical |
May require restart |
Microsoft Windows |
Bulletin 6 |
Critical |
May require restart |
Microsoft Windows, |
Bulletin 7 |
Critical |
Requires restart |
Microsoft Windows |
Bulletin 8 |
Critical |
May require restart |
Microsoft Windows |
Bulletin 9 |
Critical |
Requires restart |
Microsoft Windows |
Bulletin 10 |
Important |
May require restart |
Microsoft Office |
Bulletin 11 |
Important |
May require restart |
Microsoft Office, |
Bulletin 12 |
Important |
May require restart |
Microsoft Office |
Bulletin 13 |
Important |
May require restart |
Microsoft Windows |
Bulletin 14 |
Important |
May require restart |
Microsoft Developer Tools and Software |
Bulletin 15 |
Important |
Requires restart |
Microsoft Windows |
Bulletin 16 |
Important |
May require restart |
Microsoft Windows |
Bulletin 17 |
Important |
Requires restart |
Microsoft Windows |
Stay tuned for the webcast on Tuesday April 12, 2011 at 11:00am PST and check the Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification release
here