Microsoft will release 17 bulletins on Tuesday to fix 64 vulnerabilities across a swathe of products including Windows, Office and Internet Explorer, the company said in its Patch Tuesday preview.
Of the bulletins, nine are rated "critical" and eight are "important", the company said in a TechNet blog post on Thursday. Affected software includes all versions of Windows; IE6, IE7 and IE8; numerous versions of Office for Windows and Mac; and Visual Studio .NET and Visual C++, according to the advisory.
"This month we'll be closing some issues that Microsoft has already previously spoken to, including the SMB Browser (Critical) issue publicly disclosed Feb 15. Microsoft assessed the situation and reported that although the vulnerability could theoretically allow Remote Code Execution, that was extremely unlikely. To this day, we have seen no evidence of attacks," the company said in its blog post.
For more on this ZDNet UK-selected story, see Microsoft prepping 17 patches for 64 holes on CNET News.
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