CVE-2013-3129

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Microsoft's Patch Tuesday for July landed overnight with a bumper crop of seven bulletins, six of which cover critical flaws that carry remote code execution risks. And the Windows 8 giant today revealed that one of these, CVE-2013-3163, is currently under active attack online. Every supported operating system, every version of MS Office, Lync, Silverlight, Visual Studio and .NET will need patching - creating plenty of work for sysadmins worldwide. The patch batch grapples with a total of 34 vul...

As promised in Microsoft’s July Advance Notification, Microsoft ships seven security bulletins this month (MS13-052 – MS13-058). At least 34 CVE are being patched. Six of the Security Bulletins are rated “critical” due to remote code execution issues. The vulnerabilities being fixed this month enable RCE across all versions of Windows operating systems, but most of these serious flaws have all been privately reported and there is no indication that they are publicly known or exploited ye...