October Microsoft patches – summary

On Tuesday, October 12, Microsoft is scheduled to release the patches for October. From the details provided on http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms10-oct.mspx it appears there will be a significant number of patches. According to Microsoft, there is scheduled to be 16 bulletins for 49 vulnerabilities that will be released on Tuesday.

The breakdown for critical vulnerabilities by operating system is as follows:

Server OSs
Windows 2008r2
Two critical patches- Bulletins 3 and 4

Windows 2008
Two critical patches – Bulletins 3 and 4 (64bit only)
Bulletin 4 is not applicable to 32 bit installations of Windows 2008

Windows 2003
Two critical patches – Bulletins 3 and 4 (64 bit only)
Bulletin 4 is not applicable to 32 bit installations of Windows 2003

Windows 7
Four critical patches – Bulletins 1, 2, 3 and 4 (64 bit only)
Bulletin 1 is specific to Internet Explorer 8
Bulletin 4 is not applicable for 32 bit installations of Windows 7

Vista
Three critical patches – Bulletins 1, 3 and 4 (64 bit only)
Bulletin 1 is specific to Internet Explorer versions 7 and 8
Bulletin 4 is not applicable for 32 bit installations of Vista

Windows XP sp3
Three critical patches – Bulletins 1, 3 and 4 (64 bit only)
Bulletin 1 is specific to Internet Explorer versions 6, 7 and 8
Bulletin 4 is not applicable for 32 bit installations of Windows XP

Office applicability
Bulletins 8 and 9 are applicable to Office Suites,. None of the Office patches are classified as critical.
Bulletin 8 applies to all versions of Word
Office 2002sp3
Office 2003sp3
Office 2007sp2
Office 2010 (32 and 64 bit versions)
Microsoft Word viewer

Bulletin 9 applies to all versions of Excel
Office 2002sp3
Office 2003sp3
Office 2007sp2
Microsoft Excel viewer.