Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Releases Update To Ready 53 Vulnerabilities

It's Patch Tuesday—time to update your Windows devices.

Microsoft has released a large batch of safety updates equally constituent of its Nov Patch Tuesday inward gild to ready a full of 53 novel safety vulnerabilities inward diverse Windows products, nineteen of which rated equally critical, 31 of import together with three moderate.

The vulnerabilities impact the Windows OS, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Scripting Engine, .NET Core, together with more.

At to the lowest degree 4 of these vulnerabilities that the tech giant has immediately fixed bring populace exploits, allowing attackers to exploit them easily. But fortunately, none of the 4 are existence used inward the wild, according to Gill Langston at safety theatre remote code execution flaw (CVE-2017-11882) that plant against all versions of Windows operating system, including the latest Microsoft Windows 10 Creators Update.

However, due to improper retentiveness operations, the gene fails to properly handgrip objects inward the memory, corrupting it inward such a agency that the assaulter could execute malicious code inward the context of the logged-in user.

Exploitation of this vulnerability requires opening a especially crafted malicious file alongside an affected version of Microsoft Office or Microsoft WordPad software, which could let attackers to remotely install malware on targeted computers.

Adobe Patch Tuesday: Patches 62 Vulnerabilities

Besides fixing vulnerabilities inward its diverse products, Microsoft has equally good released updates for Adobe Flash Player.

These updates fit alongside Adobe Update APSB17-33, which patches 62 CVEs for Acrobat together with Reader alone. So, Flash Player users are advised to ensure that they update Adobe across their surround to remain protected.

It should equally good live on noted that final Patch Tuesday, Microsoft quietly released the piece for the unsafe KRACK vulnerability (CVE-2017-13080) inward the WPA2 wireless protocol.

Therefore, users are equally good recommended to brand certain that they bring patched their systems alongside the final month's safety patches.

Alternatively, users are strongly advised to apply Nov safety patches equally shortly equally possible inward gild to transcend away along hackers together with cybercriminals away from taking command of their computers.

For installing safety updates, but caput on to Settings → Update & safety → Windows Update → Check for updates, or y'all tin install the updates manually.

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