CVE-2021-33781

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Microsoft's October Patch Tuesday has arrived with fixes for 71 new CVEs, two patch revisions to address bugs from previous months that just won't die, and three CVEs tied to OpenSSL flaws. That's in addition to eight Edge-Chromium CVEs dealt with earlier this month. Two of the fresh bugs are rated Critical, 68 are designated Important, and one is rated Low severity. Four among the overall October harvest have been publicly disclosed, including one from July, an Azure AD security feature bypass ...

Four flaws already being abused in the wild to compromise victims

Microsoft released an XL-sized bundle of security fixes for its products for this month's Patch Tuesday, and other vendors are close behind in issuing updates. The Windows goliath's batch for July has 117 patches, 13 for what's said to be critical bugs, 103 important, and one moderate. Normally, we'd encourage you to install these updates, testing them as appropriate prior to deployment, before miscreants develop exploits for them. However, four of these holes are already being exploited in the ...