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Industrial-strength April Patch Tuesday covers 135 CVEs
Microsoft on Tuesday released 135 patches affecting 19 product families. Ten of the addressed issues, all remote code execution issues, are considered by Microsoft to be of Critical severity, and 18 have a CVSS base score of 8.0 or higher. One, an Important-severity elevation of privilege issue touching the Windows Common Log File system driver,…
Little fires everywhere for March Patch Tuesday
Microsoft on Tuesday released 57 patches affecting 10 product families. Six of the addressed issues are considered by Microsoft to be of Critical severity, and nine have a CVSS base score of 8.0 or higher. Six, all affecting Windows, are under active exploit in the wild. One issue has been publicly disclosed but not yet…
February Patch Tuesday delivers 57 packages
Microsoft on Tuesday released 57 patches touching 13 product families. Two of the addressed issues are considered by Microsoft to be of Critical severity, and 13 have a CVSS base score of 8.0 or higher. Two, both affecting Windows, are under active exploit in the wild. At patch time, two of the addressed Windows issues…
159-CVE January Patch Tuesday smashes single-month record
Microsoft on Tuesday released 159 patches touching 13 product families. Nine of the addressed issues are considered by Microsoft to be of Critical severity, and 43 have a CVSS base score of 8.0 or higher. Three are under active exploit in the wild. One can best be mitigated by “configur[ing] Microsoft Outlook to read all…