Get up, shake off the hangover: These 57 Microsoft holes won't fix themselves
This month's fat security Patch Tuesday has landed
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A bumper Microsoft Patch Tuesday has rolled out 12 security bulletins that collectively address a hefty 57 vulnerabilities.
Five of these bulletins reveal critical holes in the software giant's products: one bulletin (MS13-009) covers 13 bugs found in Internet Explorer, while another (MS13-016) tackles a privilege-escalation flaw in win32k.sys, a core Windows kernel-mode component. One of the IE bugs can be exploited by an attacker to gain control of a user's machine via a drive-by download.
Another update (MS13-010) also patches Microsoft's web browser to squash a security bug in an ActiveX dynamic-link library. This update is, if anything, even more important because it addresses a vulnerability that's being actively exploited by miscreants.
The other critical updates cover Windows bugs, as explained in Microsoft's bulletin here.
In other patching news, Adobe followed up a Flash release last week that grappled with two 0-day vulnerabilities, with a new patch for its plugin. The update fixes 17 security flaws. Users of Internet Explorer 10 and Google Chrome should be patched automatically.
Commentary on both updates can be found in a blog post by Wolfgang Kandek, CTO of Qualys, here. ®
COMMENTS
Re: 57 vulnerabilities
> Bloody Microsoft nicking other peoples ideas again! They'll be putting horses in Windows phones next just to get publicity!
They should try that. They might sell better than the current turkeys they're putting out.
Re: Same S---, Different Day
/me band selects all of the required patches in WSUS, right clicks and selects "Install".
Finished applying patches for the month.
I would wager it took you longer to type your post than it did for most of us to roll the patches out.
Are you that concerned?
Just curious about others experiences, but in our organization of about 12,000 machines, all of which are windows, we have had 0 issues with being hit with malware/viruses since about 2002 (that was Blaster IIRC, date might be off somewhat). We use SCCM to deploy patches now and it's been pretty good from what I can see. Still use WSUS on servers though, which is very good for what we need.
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