Below is a summary of the combined security bulletins for the month of December 2011.  Computers that are joined to the UTPA domain will receive the applicable updates automatically on Thursday, December 22nd, at 11:00pm.  If your computer is not a part of the UTPA domain or is not running Microsoft Windows, please make sure that it is configured to update automatically. 

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• Microsoft Security Bulletins
• MS11-087: Vulnerability in Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2639417)
  More Info: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms11-087
  Severity: Critical
• MS11-090: Cumulative Security Update of ActiveX Kill Bits (2618451)
  More Info:http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms11-090
  Severity: Critical
• MS11-092: Vulnerability in Windows Media Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2648048)
  More Info: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms11-092
  Severity: Critical
• MS11-088: Vulnerability in Microsoft Office IME (Chinese) Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (2652016)
  More Info: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms11-088
  Severity: Important
• MS11-089: Vulnerability in Microsoft Office Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2590602)
  More Info: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms11-089
  Severity: Important
• MS11-091: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Publisher Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2607702)
  More Info: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms11-091
  Severity: Important
• MS11-093: Vulnerability in OLE Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2624667)
  More Info: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms11-093
  Severity: Important
• MS11-094: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft PowerPoint Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2639142)
  More Info: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms11-094
  Severity: Important
• MS11-095: Vulnerability in Active Directory Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2640045)
  More Info: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms11-095
  Severity: Important
• MS11-096: Vulnerability in Microsoft Excel Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2640241)
  More Info: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms11-096
  Severity: Important
• MS11-097: Vulnerability in Windows Client/Server Run-time Subsystem Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (2620712)
  More Info: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms11-097
  Severity: Important
• MS11-098: Vulnerability in Windows Kernel Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (2633171)
  More Info: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms11-098
  Severity: Important
• MS11-099: Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (2618444)
  More Info: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms11-099
  Severity: Important
• Microsoft Non-Security Updates
• KB2553270: Update for Microsoft Office 2010
  More Info: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2553270
• KB2553385: Update for Microsoft Office 2010
  More Info: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2553385
• KB2553439: Update for Microsoft Excel 2010
  More Info: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2553439
• KB2596596: Update for Microsoft Office Excel 2007
  More Info: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2596596
• KB2596651: Update for Microsoft Office 2007 suites
  More Info: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2596651
• KB2596789: Update for Microsoft Office 2007 suites
  More Info: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2596789
• KB2596963: Update for Microsoft Office 2010
  More Info: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2596963
• KB2596964: Update for Microsoft Office 2010
  More Info: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2596964
• KB2597035: Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Junk Email Filter
  More Info: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2597035
• Adobe
• Security updates available for Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x for Windows
  More Info: https://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb11-30.html
  Severity: Critical
• Oracle
  • Java (Upgrade to version 6 update 30)
    More info: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/javacpuoct2011-443431.html
    Severity: Critical