Patch Tuesday for October 2013

Patches from Microsoft and Adobe were announced today, along with a new version of Flash.

Eight bulletins from Microsoft fix security vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer, .NET, Office, Windows Server and Silverlight.

The Microsoft Security Research Center as usual provides a more friendly overview of this month’s patches, while the SANS Internet Storm Center provides a wealth of technical details.

Two bulletins from Adobe fix security vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader/Acrobat and Robohelp.

Flash 11.9.900.117 includes a long list of bug fixes. Chrome will be updated silently to match the new version of Flash. An update for Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8 is also on the way.

About jrivett

Jeff Rivett has worked with and written about computers since the early 1980s. His first computer was an Apple II+, built by his father and heavily customized. Jeff's writing appeared in Computist Magazine in the 1980s, and he created and sold a game utility (Ultimaker 2, reviewed in the December 1983 Washington Apple Pi Journal) to international markets during the same period. Proceeds from writing, software sales, and contract programming gigs paid his way through university, earning him a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) degree at UWO. Jeff went on to work as a programmer, sysadmin, and manager in various industries. There's more on the About page, and on the Jeff Rivett Consulting site.

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