It’s not the second Tuesday of the month, but Microsoft has rushed out several patches for Internet Explorer. These are related to the zero-day exploit that was revealed earlier in the month; however it appears that the underlying vulnerability was not fixed; independent security researchers have discovered the underlying flaw and are ready to release at this week’s Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. Microsoft is preempting the exploitation of this possible issue by taking the highly unusual step of releasing an out-of-cycle patch.

More information, as well as download links for the said patches, may be found below:

• Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer
• Vulnerabilities in Visual Studio Active Template Library Could Allow Remote Code Execution