Today is Microsoft s August 2022 Patch Tuesday, and with it comes fixes for the actively exploited DogWalk zero-day vulnerability and a total of 121 flaws.
Patch Tuesday (February 2021): Microsoft Patches 56 Windows Vulnerabilities, including a Window Zero-Day Vulnerability
CVE-2021-1732 Windows 32K Elevation of Privilege (Zero-Day) Vulnerability
LAST UPDATED ON FEBRUARY 10, 2021
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Microsoft has recently released the patched vulnerabilities roll which includes 56 system and operating system vulnerabilities and security updates for Windows 10. The complete patching list includes over 1000 items, 300 of them having been flagged as “critical”. Note that the items in question have been addressed separately by Microsoft, as part of the January-February security update series and cumulative updates.
The latest vulnerability patching roll addresses issues found in Azure’s IoT, .NET Frameworks, Edge on Chromium, Bluetooth Driver, Office Excel, MS Office SharePoint, DNS Server, Windows Codecs Library, Windows Kernel, Windows TCP\IP, DirectX, Windows MDM, Windows PFX Encryption. In addition, Microsoft has also identified and f