Patch Tuesday 2020/02 fixes 99 security vulnerabilities

Microsoft released the updates today in Patch Tuesday February 2020.

This month's updates include many fixes, as they close 99 security vulnerabilities in Microsoft software.

Patch Tuesday

One of the most serious vulnerabilities fixed this month was CVE-2020-0674, a 0day in Internet Explorer.

On January 17th, Microsoft revealed ongoing attacks where hackers were using this zero day in IE, but then the it didn't have a patch.

In this Patch Tuesday, in addition to the above, 98 other vulnerabilities are fixed. Of these, 11 have been described as "critical".

Οι περισσότερες από αυτές τις ευπάθειες μπορούν να χρησιμοποιηθούν απομακρυσμένα, χωρίς φυσική πρόσβαση στον υπολογιστή-στόχο. Αφορούν επίσης σφάλματα μνήμης σε υπηρεσίες όπως την scripting engine του IE, στην υπηρεσία Remote Desktop , in LNK files and the Media Foundation component.

This month, Microsoft updates are huge in volume. Windows Update will automatically install updates that fix the 99 bugs in your computer security.

For more information and technical details visit the official Security Update Guide Microsoft portal contains all the security updates in one table.

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