Hey Hey,

This Tuesday is the second Tuesday of the month, and like every other month that means it's time again for Patch Tuesday.

This time it looks bad... 12 Updates, 10 for Windows and 2 for Office... lately the turn around for PoCs and working exploits going public seems to be less than two weeks... HD Moore was 9 days on RASMAN, a couple had detailed enough explanations in the advisories that "discoverers" put out last time that working exloits could have easily been writen... This is a large number of updates for one time.... More updates means a better chance of missing one or something messin' up. When you consider that from Jan - July we had ony 39 updates in total.... we're now adding 12 more.. That's 23.5% of all updates released up to and including this august release... 8 months of updates and nearly 1/4 of them are coming out in a single month...

I'm going to put in some time this weekend catching up on the mailing lists see if I missed anything that could be assumed to lead to a Patch Tuesday update.... I'll post anything I find..

Here's the MS Advance Notice Bulletin
Summary
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On 8 August 2006 Microsoft is planning to release:

Security Updates

. Ten Microsoft Security Bulletins affecting Microsoft Windows.
The highest Maximum Severity rating for these is Critical. These
updates will be detectable using the Microsoft Baseline Security
Analyzer and the Enterprise Scan Tool. Some of these updates will
require a restart.

. Two Microsoft Security Bulletins affecting Microsoft Office.
The highest Maximum Severity rating for these is Critical. These
updates will be detectable using the Microsoft Baseline Security
Analyzer. These updates may require a restart.


Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool

. Microsoft will release an updated version of the Microsoft
Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool on Windows Update, Microsoft
Update, Windows Server Update Services and the Download Center.
Note that this tool will NOT be distributed using Software Update
Services (SUS).

Non-security High Priority updates on MU, WU, WSUS and SUS

. Microsoft will not release any NON-SECURITY High-Priority
Updates for Windows on Windows Update (WU) and Software Update
Services (SUS).

. Microsoft will release twoNON-SECURITY High-Priority Updates
on Microsoft Update (MU) and Windows Server Update Services (WSUS).

Although we do not anticipate any changes, the number of bulletins,
products affected, restart information and severities are subject to
change until released.
Peace,
HT