February 2013 Patch Tuesday: 12 Security Bulletins for 57 Vulnerabilities

This love month, Microsoft released 12 security bulletins addressing the whopping 57 vulnerabilities. Out of the security updates, 5 are tagged as Critical and the rest are rated as Important.

One of the notable advisories for this round is (MS13-009) Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (2792100), which covers the vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. Accordingly, these vulnerabilities, affecting all versions of IE, (which include the latest version: IE 10 on Windows 8 and Windows RT) could lead to remote code execution. Another notable Critical-rate updates are (MS13-011) and (MS13-012), which affect Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Windows and can also lead to remote code execution thus compromising the security of the system.

Users should immediately apply patches, whenever possible, for these vulnerabilities. Trend Micro Deep Security and Office Scan with Intrusion Defense Firewall (IDF) plugin users are protected from any attacks that may leverage these vulnerabilities. For more information on the bulletins and their IDF rules, visit the Threat Encyclopedia Page.

Post from: Trendlabs Security Intelligence Blog – by Trend Micro

February 2013 Patch Tuesday: 12 Security Bulletins for 57 Vulnerabilities