Microsoft Issues Patches for 2 Windows Zero-Days and 126 Other Vulnerabilities
Microsoft Issues Patches for 2 Windows Zero-Days , Microsoft's Patch Tuesday updates for the month of April have addressed a total of 128 security vulnerabilities spanning across its software product portfolio, including Windows, Defender, Office, Exchange Server, Visual Studio, and Print Spooler, among others.
The patches arrive a week after the tech giant announced plans to make available a feature called AutoPatch in July 2022 that allows enterprises to expedite applying security fixes in a timely fashion while emphasizing on scalability and stability.
10 of the 128 bugs fixed are rated Critical, 115 are rated Important, and three are rated Moderate in severity, with one of the flaws listed as publicly known and another under active attack at the time of the release.
The updates are in addition to 26 other flaws resolved by Microsoft in its Chromium-based Edge browser since the start of the month.
The second publicly-known zero-day flaw (CVE-2022-26904, CVSS score: 7.0) also concerns a case of privilege escalation in the Windows User Profile Service, successful exploitation of which "requires an attacker to win a race condition."
Software Patches from Other Vendors
In addition to Microsoft, security updates have also been released by other vendors to rectify several vulnerabilities, counting —
- Adobe
- Android
- Apache Struts 2
- Cisco Systems
- Citrix
- Dell
- Google Chrome
- HP Teradici PCoIP Client
- Juniper Networks
- Linux distributions Oracle Linux, Red Hat, and SUSE
- Mozilla Firefox, Firefox ESR, and Thunderbird
- SAP
- Schneider Electric
- Siemens, and
- VMware