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Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, October 2024 Security Update Review
- Microsoft has released its October 2024 Patch Tuesday updates, patching 121 vulnerabilities with 3 critical and 114 important severity vulnerabilities.
- Two zero-day vulnerabilities, known to be exploited in the wild, were addressed by Microsoft.
- Adobe has released nine security advisories to address 52 vulnerabilities in its software.
- 31 of these vulnerabilities are given critical severity ratings.
- Several flaws have been fixed in Microsoft software, including Spoofing, Denial of Service (DoS), Elevation of Privilege (EoP), Information Disclosure, Security Feature Bypass, and Remote Code Execution (RCE).
- The vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office and Components, Microsoft Management Console, Visual Studio, Windows Print Spooler Components, Windows Remote Desktop, among many others, were patched.
- Microsoft has addressed three vulnerabilities in Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based), which were patched earlier this month.
- The active exploitation of zero-day vulnerabilities and the critical vulnerabilities remain a significant threat to digital devices.
- Combining Qualys Vulnerability Management Detection Response (VMDR) and Qualys Patch Management can reduce the median time to remediate these vulnerabilities.
- The next Patch Tuesday falls on November 12 and stay tuned for the patch analysis.
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