For some of us, it is time to go to back to school. For others it is back to the grind, but at least it looks like September is a relatively light patch cycle. With this September Patch Tuesday from Microsoft we see four updates, with one update (for Microsoft Internet Explorer) rated as critical and the remaining three updates rated as important. September has historically been a difficult month to predict the nature and number of patches that Microsoft will release. Generally, September sees around five updates but we have seen some very large patch updates in the past: 13 updates released in 2013 and 10 patches released in 2010.

Before we begin this month’s Patch Tuesday review, we should mention that Microsoft has updated last month’s critical update MS14-045 due to reports of Blue-Screen-of-Death (BSOD) errors with this update to the Microsoft networking stack. In last month’s posting, I mentioned that this update might cause these kinds of errors (BSOD) with the warning to test your applications heavily before deployment. There is still some uncertainty about this patch, so you may want to wait another few weeks prior to deploying this update. 

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