Microsoft Security Bulletin MS12-060 – Critical

On Aug 14^th 2012 Microsoft released security bulletin which includes an update for SQL Server. Please read the details in below link

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms12-060

As stated updates included in KB2598041 which was part of security bulletin MS12-027 (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29372) are replaced with KB2687441 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2687441)

So important question is do you need to install this security update?

If you look under the replacement update KB2687441 then the it applies only to the host machines which have Microsoft Office installed on it. Specifically

2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service Pack 3
2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service Pack 2

Usually it is not a standard practice to install MS Office on database servers so most likely you do not need this security update.

In case you do have Microsoft Office installed on one of you database servers and have one of the following versions of SQL Server installed then you need to install this security update

Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 4
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services Service Pack 4
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition with Advanced Services Service Pack 4
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 for 32-bit Systems Service Pack 4
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 4
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 for Itanium-based Systems Service Pack 4
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 for 32-bit Systems Service Pack 2
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 for 32-bit Systems Service Pack 3
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 2
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 3
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems Service Pack 2
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems Service Pack 3
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 for 32-bit Systems
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 for 32-bit Systems Service Pack 1
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 for 32-bit Systems Service Pack 2
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 2
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 for Itanium-based Systems
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 for Itanium-based Systems Service Pack 1
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 for Itanium-based Systems Service Pack 2