Microsoft issued its biggest software patch on record on Tuesday to fix a range of security issues in its programs, including the yet to be released Windows 7 operating system.
The company's monthly update for October includes 13 security patches, to address 34 vulnerabilities that affect Windows, Internet Explorer, Silverlight, Office and other products.
Six of the patches were high priority (Critical).
Tuesday's update included the largest number of patches to be issued on a single day by Microsoft.
The new operating system from Microsoft will be marketed as October 22 but has already been made available to many users, especially students of schools joining the MSDN Academic Alliance program. So far spared, Windows 7 is concerned with two of them critical vulnerabilities affecting Internet Explorer 8 and the environment. NET programming. These vulnerabilities also affect other versions of Windows allow an attacker to take remote control of a computer that has not been updated.
Other fixes involve one or more versions of Windows and are marked critical or important. The vulnerabilities allow for the most part to execute code remotely, others to obtain elevated privileges (become a director), others allow a denial of service.
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