Patch Tuesday - December 2022

As far as Patch Tuesdays go, defenders have a relatively light month to close out the year with only 48 CVEs being published by Microsoft today. This does not include the 24 previously disclosed vulnerabilities affecting their Chromium-based Edge browser. There are two zero-days in the mix today...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday for December 2022 — Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities

Microsoft released its monthly security update on Tuesday, disclosing 48 vulnerabilities. Of these vulnerabilities, 6 are classified as "Critical", 41 are classified as "Important", with the remaining vulnerability classified as "Moderate." One of the critical vulnerabilities, which Microsoft...

Security advisories are falling short. Here's why, with Dustin Childs: Lock and Code S03E25

Decades ago, patching was, to lean into a corny joke, a bit patchy. In the late 90s, the Microsoft operating system OS Windows 98 had a supportive piece of software that would find security patches for the OS so that users could then download those patches and deploy them to their computers. That...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday November 2022: Exchange ProxyNotShell RCE, JScript9, MoTW, OpenSSL, Edge, CNG, Print Spooler

Hello everyone! This episode will be about Microsoft Patch Tuesday for November 2022, including vulnerabilities that were added between October and November Patch Tuesdays. As usual, I use my open source Vulristics project to create the report. Alternative video link for Russia: The most importan...

Akamai’s Perspective on November’s Patch Tuesday

Every Patch Tuesday stirs up the community. See Akamai's November insights and recommendations on what to focus on, and patch, patch, patch!...

QSC 2022: Qualys’ Threat Research Unit (TRU) – Our Shield Is Your Shield

Day two of QSC profiled the special launch of the Qualys Threat Research Unit, TRU. Taking the audience through a madcap tour of what the threat research unit is doing to provide intelligence and actionable insights into its census was Travis Smith, VP of Qualys Threat Research Unit. He dove deep...

Microsoft addressed ProxyNotShell with November Patch Tuesday

Threat Level Vulnerability Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Microsoft addressed six zero-day vulnerabilities in this patch Tuesday, along with other significant vulnerabilities that could lead to Remote Code Execution, Information Disclosure, and Denial of...

Patch Tuesday, November 2022 Election Edition

Lets face it: Having “2022 election” in the headline above is probably the only reason anyone might read this story today. Still, while most of us here in the United States are anxiously awaiting the results of how well weve patched our Democracy, it seems fitting that Microsoft Corp. today...

CVE-2022-41073

Windows Print Spooler Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Recent assessments: ccondon-r7 at December 29, 2022 11:52pm UTC reported: Evidently this is being used for privilege escalation in ransomware attacks when threat actors have initial access to systems through existing Raspberry Robin,...

November 2022 Patch Tuesday | Microsoft Releases 65 New Vulnerabilities with 10 Critical; Adobe Releases Zero Advisories (for the first time in six years).

Microsoft Patch Tuesday Summary Microsoft has fixed 65 new vulnerabilities aka flaws in the November 2022 update, including ten 10 vulnerabilities classified as Critical as they allow Denial of Service DoS, Elevation of Privilege EoP, and Remote Code Execution RCE. This months Patch Tuesday...

Patch Tuesday - November 2022

It’s a relatively light Patch Tuesday this month by the numbers – Microsoft has only published 67 new CVEs, most of which affect their flagship Windows operating system. However, four of these are zero-days, having been observed as exploited in the wild. The big news is that two older zero-day CV...

Get Your Patch Tuesday Vulnerabilities Patched on Tuesday

Every IT person is familiar with Patch Tuesdays. It’s the time of the month where IT needs to put their daily work aside and prepare for patching their entire IT environment. However, for many organizations Patch Tuesday is not a single event that occurs as an isolated point in time. It typically...

Researchers Detail Windows Event Log Vulnerabilities: LogCrusher and OverLog

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details about a pair of vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, one of which could be exploited to result in a denial-of-service DoS. The exploits, dubbed LogCrusher and OverLog by Varonis, take aim at the EventLog Remoting Protocol MS-EVEN, which enables...

A week in security (October 10 - 16)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Teen talk: What it's like to grow up online, and the role of parents: Lock and Code S03E21 White House unveils Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights Credential stuffers take aim at Final Fantasy XIV players Meta accuses apps of stealing WhatsApp accounts Smart lights...

Akamai’s Perspective on October’s Patch Tuesday 2022

Every Patch Tuesday stirs up the community. See Akamai's October insights and recommendations on what to focus on, and patch, patch, patch!...

Did Patch Tuesday address the zero-day flaw in Microsoft Exchange

Threat Level Vulnerability Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Microsoft addresses two new zero-day vulnerabilities tracked under CVE-2022-41033, an Elevation of Privilege vulnerability exploited in the wild. CVE-2022-41043 is an Information Disclosure...

Update now! October patch Tuesday fixes actively used zero-day...but not the one you expected

Microsoft fixed 84 vulnerabilities in its October 2022 Patch Tuesday updates. Thirteen of them received the classification 'Critical'. Among them are a zero-day vulnerability that's being actively exploited, and another that hasnt been spotted in the wild yet. The bad news is that the much-desire...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday Fixes New Windows Zero-Day; No Patch for Exchange Server Bugs

Microsoft's Patch Tuesday update for the month of October has addressed a total of 85 security vulnerabilities, including fixes for an actively exploited zero-day flaw in the wild. Of the 85 bugs, 15 are rated Critical, 69 are rated Important, and one is rated Moderate in severity. The update,...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday for October 2022 — Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities

Microsoft released its monthly security update Tuesday, disclosing 83 vulnerabilities across the companys hardware and software line, including seven critical issues in Windows point-to-point tunneling protocol. Octobers security update features 11 critical vulnerabilities, with the remainder bei...

Microsoft Issues Improved Mitigations for Unpatched Exchange Server Vulnerabilities

Microsoft on Friday disclosed it has made more improvements to the mitigation method offered as a means to prevent exploitation attempts against the newly disclosed unpatched security flaws in Exchange Server. To that end, the tech giant has revised the blocking rule in IIS Manager from...