2020 starts off with a relatively heavy list of patches for Microsoft users. January is typically a light month for fixes, but Microsoft released patches for 49 vulnerabilities (eight of which are Critical and all the remaining classified as Important) in this cycle. None of these vulnerabilities are known to be under attack at this…
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Microsoft released a total of 36 patches for December’s Patch Tuesday. Decembers tend to have a relatively low number of patches, and the last Patch Tuesday of the 2010s was no different. Seven of the 36 patches were identified as Critical, 28 Important, and one Moderate. The vulnerabilities covered a wide variety of Microsoft products, including Windows, Internet Explorer, Office, Hyper-V Server, and SQL Server. None of the fixed vulnerabilities were disclosed to the public before patching, although one was under active attack at the time of the patch.
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Following the relatively light list from last month, November proved to be a much more eventful month for Microsoft users. The November Patch Tuesday holds more fixes with a total of 74 patches, 13 of which were classified as Critical patches for remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities. The remaining majority were rated as Important and included patches for Windows graphics components and Microsoft SharePoint, among others.
Read More October’s Patch Tuesday is relatively modest, with Microsoft releasing a total of 59 patches. However, this shorter list still warrants attention. Nine of the 59 were still identified as Critical, while the remaining 50 were labeled Important. Most of the critical bulletins were for various Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge vulnerabilities, with one covering a Remote Desktop Client vulnerability. The Important bulletins fixed several issues, including NTLM and Microsoft IIS server vulnerabilities.
Read More Critical patches covered in the release include fixes for Windows DHCP Server, Azure DevOps Server and Team Foundation Server, and .NET Framework, namely assigned as CVE-2019-0785, CVE-2019-1072, and CVE-2019-1113. Elevation of privilege vulnerabilities in Microsoft splwow64 (CVE-2019-0880) and Win32k (CVE-2019-1132), which were reported as being exploited, have also been patched.
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