Microsoft Patch Tuesday for May 2014

This month’s crop of updates addresses thirteen vulnerabilities in Windows, Office, Internet Explorer, SharePoint and .NET.

There are eight bulletins, with two of them being flagged as Critical.

There are no updates for Windows XP this month, so it looks like Microsoft really has put the final nail in XP’s coffin.

The summary bulletin on the TechNet Security TechCenter has all the gory details. As usual, there’s a friendlier summary on the MSRC blog. The SANS Handler’s Blog has a slightly different take on this month’s updates.

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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