Advance Notification of Microsoft Patch Tuesday for June 2010


Microsoft released an advance notification for their June 2010 patch tuesday. Microsoft will release 10 security bulletins on June 8th addressing 34 vulnerabilities. 

  • Six of the bulletins affect Windows; of those, two are rated as Critical and four are rated as Important.
  • Two bulletins affect Microsoft Office and both are rated as Important
  • One bulletin rated as Important, affects both Windows and Office
  • One bulletin rated as Critical, affects Internet Explorer.
The final updates for Windows 2000 & Windows XP Service Pack 2 will be released by July13th 2010 - that is, next month. Subsequently, users should either upgrade their OS to the supported operating system  / the latest service packs in order to keep receiving necessary security updates.