- Aug 30, 2012
- 6,598
Microsoft has announced that they will be pushing an out-of-band security patch today. The patch, which affects nearly all of the company's major platforms, is rated 'critical' and it is recommended that you install the patch immediately.
The patch is rated 'critical' because it allows for elevation of privileges and will require a restart. The platforms that are affected include: Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows 8 and 8.1, Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows RT and Windows RT 8.1 and Windows 10 Technical Preview customers are affected too.
The patch will be released at 10 A.M. PST but details about the exploit are not yet listed on Microsoft's page.
Seeing that this is an out-of-band patch and is rated critical, it may mean that the exploit is out in the wild and Microsoft wants to patch it as quickly as possible. You can install the patch using Windows Update in about three hours from the time of publishing.
Source: Microsoft
