The Microsoft Security Response Center plans to publish 12 security bulletins next Tuesday, according to Thursday's advance notification.
At least four updates will address critical issues, Microsoft said -- although Redmond was vague about just how many critical updates it plans to release. Microsoft lumped the bulletins into several groups: eight of which affect Windows, two of which affect Office, one of which affects both Windows *and* Office, and an assortment of others that affect Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC), Microsoft's malware and antivirus technologies (Microsoft Antigen, Microsoft Windows Defender, and Microsoft Forefront), and Visual Studio, among others.
Of the five Windows bulletins, the advance notification says that, "The highest Maximum Severity rating for these is Critical." At least one Windows bulletin, one Office bulletin, along with the combined Windows-Office bulletin and the malware and antivirus bulletin, merit severity ratings of "Critical."
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