Microsoft released two emergency security updates late Tuesday to fix two vulnerabilities in the Microsoft Windows Codecs Library.
Vulnerabilities have been recorded as CVE-2020-1425 & CVE-2020-1457. Security vulnerabilities affect only Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019 versions.
According to Microsoft, the two security vulnerabilities can be exploited with the help of a specially designed image file.
So if a malicious image is opened in applications that use the built-in Windows Codecs library to manipulate the media, then it will allow intruders to run malicious code on a Windows computer and possibly take control of the device.
The two bugs, described as Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerabilities from the remote code execution) were patched late last night and released publicly this morning.
Updates to the Windows Codecs Library are released through the Windows Store app, not through Windows Update.
“Our customers don't have to do any energy to receive the update," Microsoft says.
The Redmond-based company said the bugs were reported privately and have not been used to date when they were made public.
Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative, a program to broker communications between security researchers and larger companies, disclosed the vulnerabilities to Microsoft. Behind her discovery it was researcher Abdul-Aziz Hariri, who delivered the bugs to the ZDI team.
