This ‘Patch Tuesday’ for July 2013, sees the release of 7 bulletins:
Bulletin Breakdown:
Affected Products:
All Internet Explorer versions
All supported operating systems
Office 2003 SP3, Office 2007 SP3, Office 2010 SP1
Visual Studio 2003 SP1
Microsoft Silverlight 5
Microsoft Lync 2010 and 2013
Windows Defender on Windows 7 and 2008 R2
The following table summarises the security bulletins for this month in order of severity.
| Bulletin ID | Maximum Severity Rating and Vulnerability Impact | Restart Requirement | Affected Software |
| Bulletin 1 | Critical | May Requires restart | Microsoft Windows, Microsoft .NET Framework, Microsoft Silverlight |
| Elevation of Privilege | |||
| Bulletin 2 | Critical | Requires a restart | Microsoft Windows |
| Remote Code Execution | |||
| Bulletin 3 | Critical | May require restart | Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Lync |
| Remote Code Execution | |||
| Bulletin 4 | Critical | Requires a restart | Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer |
| Remote Code Execution | |||
| Bulletin 5 | Critical | May require restart | Microsoft Windows |
| Elevation of Privilege | |||
| Bulletin 6 | Critical | May require restart | Microsoft Windows |
| Bulletin 7 | Important | Does not require restart | Microsoft Security Software |
We will issue further information on the impact of this month’s updates once they have been released for testing from the 10th of July.
MC.