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2018-09-12 09:06
Microsoft’s September 2018 Patch Tuesday has brought fixes for a little over 60 security vulnerabilities, 17 of which are critical and one is being actively exploited in the wild. The software giant has also released two advisories: one detailing the vulnerabilities it plugged in Adobe Flash and the other announcing that the company is still working on an update for CVE-2018-5391, a Windows denial of service vulnerability against the IP stack dubbed “FragmentSmack”. (The advisory … More → The post September 2018 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft fixes actively exploited zero-day appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Related Vulnerability
| DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-09-06 | CVE-2018-5391 | Improper Input Validation vulnerability in multiple products The Linux kernel, versions 3.9+, is vulnerable to a denial of service attack with low rates of specially modified packets targeting IP fragment re-assembly. | 7.5 |