CVE-2020-17132

Redmond keeps us hanging with on-premises Exchange flaw still to be fixed Patch Tuesday brings bug fixes for OpenSSL, IBM, SAP, Kubernetes, Adobe, and Red Hat. And Microsoft, of course

Patch Tuesday Microsoft on Tuesday released updates addressing 83 vulnerabilities in its software, which doesn't include the 13 flaws fixed in its Edge browser last week. That's up from 58 repairs made in December, 2020, a relatively light month by recent standards. Affected applications include: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Edge (EdgeHTML-based), Microsoft Office and Microsoft Office Services and Web Apps, Microsoft Windows Codecs Library, Visual Studio, SQL Server, Microsoft Malware Protection...

Light load from Redmond as everyone else seeks to bury bad news, sorry, align in update cadence

Patch Tuesday For December's Patch Tuesday bug bonanza, Microsoft handed out fixes for a mere 58 vulnerabilities while various other orgs addressed shortcomings in their own software in separate, parallel announcements. On the one hand, vendors glommed to Microsoft's Patch Tuesday on the pretense that users and system administrators could plan their patching around a regular, monthly cadence. On the other hand, it lets developers emit all their bad news at once and ideally avoid headlines specif...