Windows 8’s first security patches will be part of a package of fixes to be released on Tuesday.
According to PC World, “Microsoft announced the Windows 8 security fixes in a recent security bulletin.
The bulletin was issued days after a security company in the business of selling zero-day vulnerabilities, Vupen, announced that it had found multiple vulnerabilities in Windows 8 and Internet Explorer 10.
Three “critical” fixes for both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 8 will be issued on Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday.
According to Microsoft, critical vulnerabilities are most severe.
They can be exploited to allow code execution without user interaction. Such execution allows malware to self propagate itself or code to be executed without warnings or prompts to a user…”