This October Patch Tuesday brings a bumper harvest of updates from a number of vendors including Microsoft, Adobe, Apple, Oracle and Google. Of the Microsoft patches, three are rated as critical and six updates are rated as important.

MS14-056 — Critical

The first update for this October Patch Tuesday is MS14-056 which is rated as critical by Microsoft, and attempts to resolve a remote code execution vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE). This Microsoft update resolves 14 privately reported issues which if exploited successfully would give an attacker the same permissions as the logged on user. Interestingly, this updated is rated as critical by Microsoft for all versions of IE (including 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11) and moderate for all server based platforms.

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