Microsoft Windows might be the dominant operating system on the market, but Windows has its flaws, to prevent malicious users from exploiting these flaws, Microsoft is planning to patch and fix 64 flaws in various applications.

Microsoft is planning to fix 64 security flaws in several popular applications and this list of applications includes Windows, Office, Internet Explorer, Visual Studio, .NET Framework and GDI+. Microsoft is preparing 17 security bulletins and nine of them are rated critical, while eight of them are market important.

As for the critical flaws, they all carry the risk of remote code execution, and these flaws are even present in Windows Server Message Block (SMB) network and file-sharing protocol that was shown in February. As for important issues, six bulletins are addressed to remote code execution issues, one is related with privilege escalation, and the last one is related to security flaw that leads to information disclosure.

Folks from Microsoft are trying to keep the security of their OS and their applications on a level, so patching your applications and system when this update rolls out is definitely worth thinking about.

[via Tech Spot]