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Today is Microsoft's March 2022 Patch Tuesday, and with it comes fixes for three zero-day vulnerabilities and a total of 71 flaws. Microsoft has fixed 71 vulnerabilities with today's update, with three classified as Critical as they allow remote code execution.
March 2022 Patch Tuesday forecast: Pressure mounts to resolve vulnerabilitiesFebruary 2022 Patch Tuesday was an anomaly. How to empower IT Sec and Ops teams to anticipate and resolve IT problemsEvery IT system administrator knows the misery of facing a problem for which the root cause requires hours to unearth, all the while part of the IT infrastructure entrusted to them is unavailable to users, open to attack, or not compliant with mandatory security standards.
Not only did we see record low numbers of vulnerabilities addressed across all of Microsoft's operating systems, but we also saw for the first time in my experience that all the updates were only rated Important. After the reissuing of updates in January, we expected fewer CVEs would be addressed as Microsoft focused on stable updates in February, but this was unprecedented.
Oh, blessed day: Microsoft's Patch Tuesday is a featherweight in comparison to some of its not-atypical, 10-ton security updates, with just 51 patches - none of them rated critical. February's patch-a-palooza is light not just in number of CVEs, but also in that it comes with nary a single patch that's labeled critical.
February 2022 Patch Tuesday is here and it's all-around "Light" - light in fixed CVE-numbered vulnerabilities, extremely light in critical fixes, and light in exploited vulnerabilities. Mac users of Microsoft Outlook may also want to patch CVE-2022-23280, a feature bypass vulnerability, quickly.
Today is Microsoft's February 2022 Patch Tuesday, and with it comes fixes for one zero-day vulnerability and a total of 48 flaws. Microsoft has fixed 48 vulnerabilities with today's update, with none of them classified as Critical.
February 2022 Patch Tuesday forecast: A rough start for 2022January 2022 Patch Tuesday was a rough one for Microsoft - and us. Samba bug may allow code execution as root on Linux machines, NAS devicesA critical vulnerability in Samba, a widely used open source implementation of the Server Message Block networking protocol, could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code as root on affected Samba installations.
January 2022 Patch Tuesday was a rough one for Microsoft - and us. In the week following Patch Tuesday, Microsoft was forced to pull and subsequently re-issue several updates for Windows Server 2012, 2019, and 2022, as well as Windows 10 and 11.
Microsoft on Tuesday kicked off its first set of updates for 2022 by plugging 96 security holes across its software ecosystem, while urging customers to prioritize patching for what it calls a critical "Wormable" vulnerability. The patches cover a swath of the computing giant's portfolio, including Microsoft Windows and Windows Components, Exchange Server, Microsoft Office and Office Components, SharePoint Server,.
Microsoft's first Patch Tuesday of 2022 has, for some folk, broken Hyper-V and sent domain controllers into boot loops. As well as the broken Hyper-V, popular tech blog Born City noted problems with boot loops on domain controllers, with other versions of Windows Server affected.