Microsoft will be sending us 16 bulletins covering a wide range of security holes in the Windows operating system.

Of the 16 bulletins. nine are rated “critical” because of the risk of remote code execution attack.

Adobe rates security issues in the same manner as Microsoft.

Two of the critical bulletins will address high-severity vulnerabilities in iE.

The following products are also getting patched in this month’s patch batch:

Microsoft .NET Framework

Microsoft Silverlight

Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway

Microsoft Office

Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft Visual Studio

All supported versions of Windows are affected by this month’s patches, which are scheduled for release this Tuesday (June 14).

Adobe will also fix critical security vulnerabilities in the Adobe PDF Reader and other Adobe Acrobat software products.

These vulnerabilities, also expose users to code execution attacks via rigged PDF files, affect both Windows and Mac OS X users.

Software versions affected by the vulnerabilities fixed in this patch batch include:

Adobe Reader X (10.0.1) and earlier versions for Windows

Adobe Reader X (10.0.3) and earlier versions for Macintosh

Adobe Reader 9.4.3 and earlier versions for Windows and Macintosh

Adobe Acrobat X (10.0.3) and earlier versions for Windows and Macintosh

Adobe Acrobat 9.4.3 and earlier versions for Windows and Macintosh

Sources:

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Microsoft-Plans-16-Security-Bulletins-for-Junes-Patch-Tuesday-154508/

http://www.infosecurity-us.com/view/18596/adobe-quarterly-patch-to-plug-critical-flaws-in-reader-and-acrobat/