Name

Description

Name

The name of the patch

Severity

The severity of the patch:

• Critical
• High
• Medium
• Low
• None

Vendor

The vendor of the patch

Product

Product for which the patch is applicable

Installed versions

Product versions that are already installed

Version

Version of the patch

Category

The category to which the patch belongs:

• Critical update – broadly released fixes for specific problems addressing critical, non-security related bugs.
• Security update – broadly released fixes for specific products addressing security issues.
• Definition update – updates to virus or other definition files.
• Update rollup – cumulative set of hotfixes, security updates, critical updates, and updates packaged together for easy deployment. A rollup generally targets a specific area, such as security, or a specific component, such as Internet Information Services (IIS).
• Service pack – cumulative sets of all hotfixes, security updates, critical updates, and updates created since the release of the product. Service packs might also contain a limited number of customer-requested design changes or features.
• Tool – utilities or features that aid in accomplishing a task or set of tasks.
• Feature pack – new feature releases, usually rolled into products at the next release.
• Update – broadly released fixes for specific problems addressing non-critical, non-security related bugs.
• Application – patches for an application.

Microsoft KB

If the patch for Microsoft product, the KB article ID is provided

Release date

The date when the patch was released

Machines

Number of affected machines

Approval status

The approval status is mainly needed for automatic approval scenario and to be able to define in the protection plan which updates to install by status.

You can define one of the following statuses for a patch:

• Approved – the patch was installed on at least one machine and validated as ok
• Declined – the patch is not safe and may corrupt a machine system
• Not defined – the patch status is unclear and should be validated

License agreement

• Read and accept
• Disagreed. If you disagree with the license agreement, then the patch status becomes Declined and it will not be installed

Vulnerabilities

The number of vulnerabilities. If you click on it, you will be redirected to the list of vulnerabilities.

Size

The average size of the patch

Language

The language which is supported by the patch

Vendor site

The official site of the vendor