Microsoft is planning a bumper Patch Tuesday next week — 13 bulletins covering 34 security vulnerabilities in a wide range of products. Eight of the 13 bulletins will be rated “critical,” Microsoft’s highest severity rating.
According to Microsoft’s advance notice, the patches coming on October 13 includes fixes for two serious issues that are well-known and already documented — a code execution bug in SMB v2 and a gaping hole in FTP in IIS.
Affected products include Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office, Silverlight, Microsoft Forefront, Developer Tools, and SQL Server.