Hello and welcome to this month’s blog on the Microsoft patch releases. This is a fairly light month—the vendor is releasing four bulletins covering a total of five vulnerabilities.
Four of the issues are rated “Critical” and affect Help and Support Center, Access, and the Canonical Display Driver. The Help and Support Center issue was originally made public on June 10 of this year, and has seen in-the-wild exploit attacks. The remaining issue, rated “Important,” affects Outlook and can be exploited to bypass Outlook’s detection of unsafe file types when dealing with attachments. All of the issues are client-side, and require an attacker to trick a victim into performing some action in order to exploit.
As always, customers are advised to follow these security best practices:
- Install vendor patches as soon as they are available.
- Run all software with the least privileges required while still maintaining functionality.
- Avoid...