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For December's Patch Tuesday bug bonanza, Microsoft handed out fixes for a mere 58 vulnerabilities while various other orgs addressed shortcomings in their own software in separate, parallel announcements. In a post on Monday to a Kubernetes mailing list, Apple software engineer Tim Allclair, a member of the Kubernetes Product Security Committee, outlined a medium severity bug by which an individual with the ability to create or edit services and pods could intercept traffic from other pods/nodes in the cluster.
Microsoft has addressed 58 CVEs for its December 2020 Patch Tuesday update. Also on the Exchange front, CVE-2020-17132 addresses a patch bypass for CVE-2020-16875, which was reported and patched in September's Patch Tuesday release.
As expected, Microsoft fixed a smaller-than-usual number of CVEs on this December 2020 Patch Tuesday: 58 in total. Satnam Narang, staff research engineer at Tenable, pointed out that CVE-2020-17132 addresses a patch bypass for CVE-2020-16875, which was reported and patched in September's Patch Tuesday release.
With the December 2020 Patch Tuesday security updates release, Microsoft has released fixes for 58 vulnerabilities and one advisory for Microsoft products. Of the 58 vulnerabilities fixed today, nine are classified as Critical, 48 as Important, and two as Moderate.
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We need to keep in mind that periodic updates are being released for all the applications we use and many of those updates include critical security fixes for vulnerabilities that are being exploited. Very few of us are in a position to instantly update all the systems in our organizations, so we need to prioritize what needs to be updated first, and that should be driven by risk.
Adobe and Microsoft each issued a bevy of updates today to plug critical security holes in their software. Microsoft also is taking flak for changing its security advisories and limiting the amount of information disclosed about each bug.
Microsoft's November Patch Tuesday roundup of security fixes tackled an unusually large crop of remote code execution bugs. Twelve of Microsoft's 17 critical patches were tied to RCE bugs.
Microsoft has plugged 112 security holes, including an actively exploited one. The most information is available about CVE-2020-17087, a Windows Kernel privilege escalation vulnerability, because it's being actively exploited in the wild and because Google disclosed it on October 29, along with PoC exploit code.
Today is Microsoft's November 2020 Patch Tuesday, and Windows administrators worldwide will be running around putting out fires all day, so be nice to them. With the November 2020 Patch Tuesday security updates release, Microsoft has released fixes for 112 vulnerabilities in Microsoft products.