Microsoft fixes 50 vulnerabilties in Windows, Office, Edge and Explorer

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 06/14/2018 08:34 AM | source: | 8 comment(s)

Tuesday was this month’s Patch Tuesday and this week Microsoft addressed 50 vulnerabilities that affect Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer, Chakra Scripting Engine, Windows DNSAPI, Microsoft Office, Flash Player, Windows Kernel and more.

Be sure to update as some of these when exploited they can provide an attacker with full control over the system reports myce today; One of the vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer was already publicly disclosed before a patch was available, but Microsoft claims it has not been actively attacked. In total, the software giant marked 11 vulnerabilities as critical, which means they allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code remotely. Microsoft marked the other 39 as important.

Cisco’s security division, Talos, has issued an advisory about three of the vulnerabilities which the company believes are notable and require prompt attention. These are two vulnerabilities in the Microsoft Scripting Engine and one in the Windows DNSAPI.

Besides that, an emergency patch for Flash Player that was released last week is also distributed with the updates of this Patch Tuesday. That means that Flash Player will be updated on systems where the latest Flash Player update hasn’t been installed yet. On most systems updates will be automatically installed without any user interaction. Users who can’t wait for the automatic updates can also search for updates manually.

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FM57
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#5557200 Posted on: 06/14/2018 08:54 AM

Did anybody ever sum up the total of vulnerabilities found in Windows since, say, 3.1 ?

I would looove to know that ridiculous number

Fox2232
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#5557203 Posted on: 06/14/2018 09:06 AM

Did anybody ever sum up the total of vulnerabilities found in Windows since, say, 3.1 ?

I would looove to know that ridiculous number
That would be very boring number. But with each of fix, MS knows since when they had such vulnerability in system.
Much more interesting would be graph over time showing number of unpatched security holes.

But I doubt MS is suicidal enough to release such graph.

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#5557227 Posted on: 06/14/2018 10:10 AM

That would be very boring number. But with each of fix, MS knows since when they had such vulnerability in system.
Much more interesting would be graph over time showing number of unpatched security holes.

But I doubt MS is suicidal enough to release such graph.
M$ should take red pill and release source code.

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#5557257 Posted on: 06/14/2018 12:07 PM

Is there a reason why the protections against the execution side channel vulnerability CVE-2018-3639 are disabled by default?

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#5557332 Posted on: 06/14/2018 04:37 PM

Is there a reason why the protections against the execution side channel vulnerability CVE-2018-3639 are disabled by default?

Good point, and I noticed this too. That's another new version of the Spectre vulnerability that was found in May this year. Intel/Microsoft think that the risk of infection from this exploit is low, and I don't know if there is a performance cost associated with it's enabling. You have to edit the registry to enable the protection, so they've made it difficult to do, most people won't enable the protection. I wrote a post on this yesterday on notebookreview forums (some more detail in there):
http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/cpu-vulnerabilities-meltdown-and-spectre-kernel-page-table-isolation-patches-and-more.812424/page-98#post-10744872

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