In keeping with its usual schedule, despite the Independence Day holiday here, Microsoft today released the Security Bulletin Advanced Notification for July 2013, previewing the security bulletins and associated patches it intends to release next Tuesday, July 9, 2013. This month there are seven bulletins in all; six of these have a maximum security rating of Critical; the other is rated Important. Five of the bulletins affect Windows and its components; a sixth affects Windows as well as some other software (Office, Lync, Silverlight).
All supported versions of Windows have several Critical bulletins. The table below shows a breakdown of the Windows bulletins by severity and Windows version.
In addition, one of the bulletins affects Microsoft’s
Silverlight, and is rated
Critical. Another affects
Lync, for which it is rated
Critical, as well as
Office and Visual Studio, for which it is rated
Important.
The remaining bulletin, which is rated Important, applies to Windows Defender.
Microsoft says that two of the Windows bulletins will definitely require a restart, and the other bulletins may require one, depending on your system’s configuration.
As always, this information is subject to change between now and the actual release of the bulletins on Tuesday.
