Patch mania: Updates from Apple, Cisco, Adobe, Symantec and McAfee

A lot of sites reported on Patch Tuesday, July Edition describing the released Microsoft patches. But other vendors are riding on this wave to release their patches as well. I hope you noticed:

• Adobe also release several patches including one for Flash player. Since a lot of sites use Flash, it's recommended you also pay attention to this one.
• Cisco also release two critical patches for their Cisco Unified Communications Manager (advisory 1, advisory 2).
• In the third place, Symantec plugged a heap buffer overflow vulnerability that affects the Symantec Backup Exec for Windows Servers software. Symantec reports that the attacker may also potentially be able to execute arbitrary code on the affected system.
• Apple is patching at least eight vulnerabilities that could cause code execution attacks on Mac OS X, Windows XP and Windows Vista systems.
• Last but not least, McAfee fixed four different memory corruption vulnerabilities in the Policy Orchestrator Agent.

So please pay attention to other patches besides Microsoft alone. Try to have a healthy patch management practices.