August 2010 Security Bulletin Release Advance Notification

This ‘Patch Tuesday’ for August 2010, sees the release of 14 bulletins addressing 34 vulnerabilities. 12 of the bulletins affect Windows; 4 carrying Critical severity rating.

All are listed at least as ‘may require a restart’. Of note:

• ‘requires restart’:
  • 2 critical updates affecting Windows Server 2003 32bit and x64 Service Pack 2.
  • 1 critical update affecting Windows Server 2008 32bit and x64 & 2008 R2.

We will issue further information on the impact of these updates once they have been released for testing.

The ‘Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for August 2010’ page here should be referenced for detailed information on how these updates affect your servers or solutions when released on 10th August (as usual, as a UKFast customer, you benefit from these updates being applied automatically unless you have opted out of this service.)

MC.