Microsoft will issue the penultimate patch for Windows XP in March Patch Tuesday
Including two critical bulletins, one of which patches a vulnerability in IE
By Lee Bell
Fri Mar 07 2014, 17:10
The firm said it will deliver five security updates to users next week in the release, including two rated as "critical", one of which will patch the open vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE) that hackers have been exploiting since January.
"Priority one should be the two critical bulletins," said security firm Qualys CTO Wolfgang Kandek. "Bulletin one for all versions of Internet Explorer, starting with v6 all the way to v11 and bulletin two for Windows, affecting all Windows OS versions from [Windows] XP to [Windows Server] 2012, with the exception being Windows RT."