04-12-2018 , 11:01 PM
Quote:Earlier today, Microsoft released its monthly roll-up of security patches known as Patch Tuesday, and this month, the Redmond-based OS maker has fixed 66 security issues.
The company did not patch any zero-days this month, and fixes were made available for products such as Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, ChakraCore, Microsoft Office and Microsoft Office Services and Web Apps, Adobe Flash Player, Microsoft Malware Protection Engine, Microsoft Visual Studio, and the Microsoft Azure IoT SDK.
The fix for the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine (MMPE) was released earlier than all other patches, Microsoft providing a fix last week, in an out-of-band security update.
Details about CVE-2018-1034, an elevation of privilege flaw in Microsoft SharePoint, became public before a patch was available, but Microsoft said hackers didn't pounce on it for active exploitation attempts.
The Microsoft April 2018 Patch Tuesday fixes also include Adobe Flash Player patches for six flaws, among which three were rated critical.
Below is a table listing of all the security issues Microsoft fixed this month. We used PowerShell and the Microsoft API to assemble the table below, but the report is much longer. We hosted the full report on GitHub, here.
If you're not interested in all security updates and you'd like to filter updates per product, you can use Microsoft's official Security Update Guide, available here.
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