Security News > 2020 > March > Microsoft Patches 26 Critical Bugs in Big March Update
Microsoft tackled 115 bug fixes as part of its March Patch Tuesday update - 26 rated critical and 88 rated medium severity.
Unlike last month, Microsoft did not report that any of its bugs were publicly known or under attack at the time it released its bulletin.
Within the mix of critical issues, Microsoft tacked three remote code execution vulnerabilities.
As for the other critical bugs, 17 fixes are tied to Microsoft's browser and scripting engines, four are for Media Foundation, two are for GDI+ and the remaining three address potentially dangerous LNK files and Microsoft Word and Dynamics Business, points out Animesh Jain with Qualys' Patch Tuesday team.
"Apply appropriate patches or appropriate mitigations provided by Microsoft to vulnerable systems immediately after appropriate testing. Run all software as a non-privileged user to diminish the effects of a successful attack," it wrote.