Microsoft Patch Tuesday delivers critical IE, Outlook fixes

Microsoft has shipped fixes for critical vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer and Outlook as part of September’s round of vulnerability fixes.

Overall this month, Microsoft issued 13 bulletins — 4 for them critical — that cover 47 vulnerabilities found across Internet Explorer, Outlook, SharePoint, Office and the Windows kernel. It is an exceptionally large number of patches for any one month, said Wolfgang Kandek, chief technology officer of IT security firm Qualys.