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Microsoft tackles 12 critical bugs, part of its July 2021 Patch Tuesday roundup, capping a ‘PrintNightmare’ month of headaches for system admins.
Three bugs under active exploit were squashed by Microsoft Tuesday, part of its July security roundup of fixes for Windows, Microsoft Office, SharePoint Server and Exchange Server. In all, Microsoft patched 116 bugs. Twelve bugs are rated critical, 103 rated important and one classified as moderate in severity.
Bugs under active attack include a critical scripting engine memory corruption (CVE-2021-34448) flaw and two additional Windows kernel elevation-of-privilege vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-31979, CVE-2021-33771), both with a severity rating of important.