Microsoft has rolled out its Patch Tuesday update for November 2020, which fixes 112 security bugs across several of its products.<\/p>\n
Included in this patch is a fix for a zero-day vulnerability that was being used by malicious parties.<\/p>\n
This flaw, known as CVE-2020-17087, affects the Windows Kernel and was flagged by Microsoft as “important”.<\/p>\n
However, this security flaw only works if the malicious party has already compromised the account of a less powerful user.<\/p>\n
This has been witnessed by Google, which released an update on 20 October to fix a different bug that was being used alongside this one.<\/p>\n
CVE-2020-17087 affects all of the versions of Windows that are currently supported by Microsoft, including all Windows Server distributions.<\/p>\n
There are also 24 bugs that allow remote code execution (RCE) attacks in the likes of Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Sharepoint, Microsoft Exchange Server, and Microsoft Teams.<\/p>\n
This update is available through Windows Update, and you can view the full list of security updates here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n While these security patches are important, Microsoft updates have developed a bad reputation in recent months due to its patches causing other issues for its users.<\/p>\n In November, a Windows 10 bug<\/strong><\/a> caused user certificates to be lost when updating from certain versions of Windows 10.<\/p>\n \u201cDevices will only be impacted if they have already installed any Latest cumulative update (LCU) released 16 September 2020 or later and then proceed to update to a later version of Windows 10 from media or an installation source which does not have an LCU released 13 October 2020 or later integrated,\u201d explained Microsoft.<\/p>\n A September security update<\/strong><\/a> also caused users to suffer the Blue Screen of Death. This happened when Windows discovered an offline folder feature or a domain profile on the user’s network.<\/p>\n Users also reported they were being logged out of their websites whenever they restart their computer.<\/p>\n This had been happening since May 2020, but it was accelerated by the September 2020 update.<\/p>\n Microsoft has unveiled its Patch Tuesday update for November 2020, which fixes 112 security bugs across several of its products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":284862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[123,953],"class_list":["post-375158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-microsoft","tag-windows-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375170,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375158\/revisions\/375170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Microsoft patch problems<\/h3>\n
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