October 2010 Security Update

The .NET Framework SE team has released one security bulletin as part of the monthly patch Tuesday cycle today.

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-077 - Critical , Vulnerability in .NET Framework Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2160841)
Affected products/components: .NET Framework 4

More details about the versions affected by this vulnerability can be found in the security bulletin MS10-077.

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There will be a webcast for the bulletin release on October 13, 2010 at 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada), where we will present information on the bulletin and take customer questions. If you are interested in attending the webcast, click here to sign up.

Thanks,
Jamshed Damkewala
Senior Lead Program Manager, .NET Framework Sustained Engineering Team