January 2012 Security Bulletin Release Advance Notification

4 January 2012 by Micro-Clouseau

Advanced notification blog

Microsoft is starting off 2012 with 7 bulletins addressing 8 vulnerabilities.

Bulletin breakdown:

• 1 bulletin is rated as critical
• 6 bulletins are rated as important
• 1 vulnerability could lead to a security feature bypass
• 2 vulnerabilities could lead to information disclosure
• 1 vulnerability could lead to elevation of privileges

These updates will be applied to all Microsoft Operating Systems, Microsoft Developer tools and software.
The following table summarises the security bulletins for this month in order of severity.

We will issue further information on the impact of this month’s updates once they have been released for testing from the 10^th of January 2012