Patch Tuesday - April 2017

This month's updates deliver vital client-side fixes, resolving publicly disclosed remote code execution RCE vulnerabilities for Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office that attackers are already exploiting in the wild. In particular, they've patched the CVE-2017-0199 zero-day flaw in Office and...

April 2017 Patch Tuesday Video Highlights

Microsoft Fixes 45 Vulnerabilities with new Security Update Guide and says goodbye to Security Bulletins. Adobe Fixes Flash, PDF reader and Photoshop...

On Pwn2Own, Patch Tuesday, and SAP Bugs

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including Pwn2Own 2017, Microsoft’s silence around February’s Patch Tuesday, and a nasty SAP bug. Download: ThreatpostNewsWrapMarch172017.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Patch Tuesday Returns; Microsoft Quiet on Postponement

Patch Tuesday returned today as expected after last month’s postponement with a giant release of fixes that includes patches for vulnerabilities disclosed and exploited since the last set of updates in January. Microsoft, however, was relatively silent on the reasons why the February updates were...

Adobe Fixes Six Code Execution Bugs in Flash

Adobe on Tuesday patched seven vulnerabilities in Flash Player, six that could lead to code execution. The company said it isn’t aware of any of the vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild but is still encouraging users to update Flash for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Chrome OS. The...

Unpatched SMB Zero Day Easily Exploitable

In what’s turning out to be the zero day that keeps on giving, researchers are still finding ways to exploit an unpatched denial of service vulnerability that exists in the way Windows implements the Server Message Block protocol. Details around the bug aren’t a mystery. Laurent Gaffié, the...

Google Discloses Another 'High Severity' Microsoft Bug

Google Project Zero disclosed Monday a “high severity” vulnerability it found in Microsoft’s Edge and Internet Explorer browsers that could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. The revelation adds yet another vulnerability to a growing list of known bugs Microsoft has been warned...

Publicly Disclosed Windows Vulnerabilities Await Patches

As a consequence of skipping its February Patch Tuesday release, Microsoft is leaving two publicly disclosed vulnerabilities unpatched with proof-of-concept exploits available for both. That raises the stakes exponentially on possible attacks, said Tod Beardsley, senior research director at Rapid...

Microsoft releases update for Flash Player, but leaves two disclosed Flaws Unpatched

Microsoft on Tuesday released security update KB 4010250 to patch flaws in Adobe Flash Player for its customers using Internet Explorer on Windows 8.1 and later, as well as Edge for Windows 10, but two already disclosed flaws remain unpatched. Just last week, Microsoft announced that its February...

Microsoft Waits for Patch Tuesday to Fix SMB Zero Day

Microsoft will not rush out an emergency patch for a zero-day vulnerability disclosed on Wednesday in the Windows implementation of the Server Message Block protocol. Researcher Laurent Gaffie announced in a tweet, below, that he’d found a zero-day vulnerability in SMBv3 and released a...

Microsoft Releases 4 Security Updates — Smallest Patch Tuesday Ever!

In Brief Microsoft has issued its first Patch Tuesday for 2017, and it's one of the smallest ever monthly patch releases for the company, with only four security updates to address vulnerabilities in its Windows operating system as well as Adobe Flash Player. Meanwhile, Adobe has also released...

Microsoft Issues Record Low Number of Patch Tuesday Bulletins

Microsoft’s first Patch Tuesday update of 2017 is one of the smallest in the history of the program with four bulletins released today, including three rated important along with Adobe’s monthly Flash Player update for Internet Explorer and Edge, which was rated critical by the vendor. The...

Adobe Patches 31 Vulnerabilities, Flash Zero-Day Under Attack

Adobe patched 31 vulnerabilities across nine different product lines Tuesday morning, including a zero-day vulnerability in Flash Player the company claims is being used in targeted attacks against Internet Explorer users on Windows. That vulnerability CVE-2016-7892 is one of 16 bugs in Flash tha...

Microsoft Patches Windows Zero-Day Flaw Disclosed by Google

Microsoft was very upset with Google last week when its Threat Analysis Group publically disclosed a critical Windows kernel vulnerability CVE-2016-7255 that had yet to be patched. The company criticized Google's move, claiming that the disclosure of the vulnerability, which was being exploited i...

Adobe Patches Nine Code Execution Flaws in Flash Player

Two weeks after rushing out an emergency patch for a zero-day vulnerability, Adobe today released another Flash Player security update. The new release patched nine vulnerabilities, all of which expose the host system to remote code execution. Adobe said it is not aware of public exploits against...

Microsoft Patches 5 Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Being Exploited in the Wild

Microsoft has released its monthly Patch Tuesday update including a total of 10 security bulletin, and you are required to apply the whole package of patches altogether, whether you like it or not. That's because the company is kicking off a controversial new all-or-nothing patch model this month...

Microsoft Fixes 47 Vulnerabilities with September Patch Tuesday

Microsoft patched 47 vulnerabilities as part of 14 security bulletins, seven critical, with its monthly Patch Tuesday updates today. The company is warning users that if left unpatched, 10 of the issues can lead to remote execution. The updates resolve issues in Microsoft Windows, Office, Office...

Adobe Patches 29 Vulnerabilities in Flash Player

After a month free of Flash Player fixes and emergency patches, Adobe today resumed its monthly ritual of releasing a security update for the maligned software. Today’s update patched 29 issues, most of which enabled remote code execution attacks on the host system. Adobe also updated its Air SDK...

Latest Windows UAC Bypass Permits Code Execution

Less than a month after disclosing a Windows User Account Control bypass, researcher Matt Nelson today published another attack that circumvents the security feature and leaves no traces on the hard disk. This time, the bypass relies on Event Viewer eventvwr.exe, a native Windows feature used to...

Microsoft June Patch Tuesday Fixes 44 Vulnerabilities

Microsoft pushed out 16 bulletins on Tuesday addressing 44 different vulnerabilities in its software, including Windows, Exchange Server, Office, Edge, and Internet Explorer. Five of the bulletins have been branded critical because each vulnerability associated with them could be used to carry ou...