CVE-2019-1162

This month the vendor has patched 93 vulnerabilities, 27 of which are rated Critical.

Posted: 14 Aug, 201926 Min ReadThreat Intelligence SubscribeFollowtwitterfacebooklinkedinMicrosoft Patch Tuesday – August 2019This month the vendor has patched 93 vulnerabilities, 27 of which are rated Critical.This month Microsoft has patched 93 vulnerabilities, 27 of which are rated Critical. As always, customers are advised to follow these security best practices: Install vendor patches as soon as they are available. Run all sof...

Google guru shows how WinXP-era text code grants total control What do Windows 10 and Uber or Lyft have in common? One bad driver can really ruin your day. And 40 can totally ruin your month

Patch Tuesday Software buried in Windows since the days of WinXP can be abused to take complete control of a PC with the help of good ol' Notepad and some crafty code. On Tuesday, ace bug-hunter Tavis Ormandy, of Google Project Zero, detailed how a component of the operating system's Text Services Framework, which manages keyboard layouts and text input, could be exploited by malware or rogue logged-in users to gain System-level privileges. Such level of access would grant software nasties and m...