September 2014 Update Tuesday Brings Fixes For 42 Flaws

September 10, 2014
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notes in the announcement, the top deployment priority for customers this month is Internet Explorer, which gets 1 publicly disclosed flaw fixed, along with 36 privately reported ones. The most serious of this allows an attacked to obtain the same privileges as the logged in user:

“The most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted webpage using Internet Explorer. An attacker who successfully exploited these vulnerabilities could gain the same user rights as the current user. Customers whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than those who operate with administrative user rights.”
This patch is aimed at pretty much all active versions of Internet Explorer, from Internet Explorer 6 to Internet Explorer 11. Refreshing, there are no reports of botched or faulty updates as of this writing. These updates have been flying off from servers since late last night, and it appears that users are deploying them without any major issues. Regardless, it is best to backup and create a system restore point before installing them.]]>

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Mike Johnson is a writer for The Redmond Cloud - the most comprehensive source of news and information about Microsoft Azure and the Microsoft Cloud. He enjoys writing about Azure Security, IOT and the Blockchain.

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  • 1. I’m glad and impressed that this update is fixing that many flaws. 2. I’m astounded that there are that many flaws to fix! Catch 22!

    Nemo September 10, 2014 7:15 pm Reply
  • Did it fix the bug where after a little bit, the charms bar/maximize and minimize buttons on fullscreen apps/start button no longer work until you restart?

    Nicholas Maguire September 11, 2014 4:33 pm Reply

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