<p>Microsoft has announced that it is to release seven bulletins next Tuesday, including one critical fix for vulnerabilities in Microsoft Word.</p><p>According to a statement by Dustin Childs, group manager at Microsoft Trustworthy Computing, the other six bulletins are rated as important and will address issues in Windows, Microsoft Office and SQL Server. Also addressed in this release is the issue in FAST Search Server, first described in advisory 2737111.</p><p>Looking at the single critical issue, Marcus Carey, security researcher at Rapid7, said: "Bulletin one is a vulnerability in Microsoft Office 2003, 2007 and 2010, as well as Word Viewer and Microsoft Office Web Apps. This vulnerability required a victim to open up a malicious file or even preview a malicious file in Outlook Web Access.</p><p>"This vulnerability could result in the complete compromise of a system if exploited. Since this is an Office vulnerability this may affect both Windows and Macintosh users.</p><p><a href="http://www.scmagazineuk.com/only-one-critical-patch-among-seven-expected-from-microsoft-next-week/article/262370/">Keep reading...</a></p>