"Big day next Tuesday," said Andrew Storms, director of security operations at nCircle Network Security, of the patch news.
In its monthly , Microsoft spelled out next week's double-digit Patch Tuesday, which is entirely in line with company's pattern of alternating large- and small-sized updates, said Storms. "This fits with what we expected," he said, "a double-digit bulletin [Patch Tuesday] and double-digit CVEs."
The latter, for Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures, is the identifying number each individual vulnerability receives when it's logged into the public CVE database. "We get this up-and-down from now."
Last month, Microsoft issued only two updates that patched six vulnerabilities; came in 13 bulletins that fixed 26 flaws.
"The good news is that Microsoft is fixing two outstanding bugs," Storms continued.