Microsoft announced last week that it would not release security updates in February. In fact, the company completely canceled the February updates for the first time in the story of Patch Tuesday.
Microsoft has said that it will make the updates available in March which means that quite well known issues security patches will remain unpatched. The first is a vulnerability in Windows security that was discovered on February 3 and concerns the SMB. The blank affects the Windows 8, Windows 10, and Windows Server operating systems.
Google after a few days posted a security flaw, affecting Windows, saying Micrsoft had been alerted to the vulnerability 90 days earlier, but did nothing.
Έτσι προς το παρόν έχουμε αναφέρει δύο unpatched themeτα που οι επιτιθέμενοι θα μπορούσαν να εκμεταλλευτούν, αλλά υπάρχει επίσης και το Flash Player. Adobe released a new version of Flash Player (24.0.0.221) and while Google released it immediately after its Flash Player update on Chrome, Micrsoft Edge was not updated.
This means that the version of Flash in Edge is currently vulnerable to attacks that target Adobe vulnerabilities.
The big problem is that users and administrators can not upgrade Adobe Flash Player on their own if Microsop does not release a patch for Flash.
However, Microsoft seems to have exceeded it today. The company has surpassed itself and released the Flash Player update for all systems that have built-in Flash Player.
As for the other security updates, the next scheduled monthly update on 14 March of 2017 is announced.
Microsoft released security bulletin MS17-005 just recently.
The MS17-005: It's a security update for Adobe Flash Player:
The company says:
February 21, 2017 — This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player if Flash Player is installed on any supported edition of Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows 10, Windows 10 Version 1511, Windows 10 Version 1607, Windows 8.1, or Windows RT 8.1.
The KB4010250 update is available through both Windows Update and Windows Update Microsoft Update Catalog.
