Friday, August 14, 2015

Microsoft Patches for August - Adobe Flash Update



Microsoft

This month’s Patch Tuesday brought with it 4 fixes for critical flaws including a patch for Windows 10.  Altogether there were 14 bulletins covering flaws in IE, Office, Windows and Window Server. 

The four major fixes are as follows:

MS15-079 affects Internet Explorer.  This patch fixes flaws having to do with memory corruption that may allow an attacker to gain access after a user has visited a specific webpage. 

MS15-080 concerns .Net Framework, Silverlight and Microsoft Lynch where vulnerabilities might allow an attacker to gain administrative rights to a computer if the user was tricked into visiting a site with malicious code on it.

MS15-081 deals with flaws in Office allowing an attacker to run code from a remote location as the user that is logged in if a malicious file was opened.

MS15-091 applies to those users currently running Windows 10.  It deals with Windows’s 10 newest browser which is called Edge.  If a user visits a specific website, malicious code would allow an attacker to access the computer as a logged-in user. 

There are various other fixes for Windows 10 for performance and additional fixes that are listed as important which affect Office, Windows and Windows Server.

Glasser Tech recommends waiting for a while before switching over to Windows 10. 

Further details on other updates can be found here MicrosoftSecurity Bulletin

Adobe Flash Player also received an update for vulnerabilities.  Nearly every vulnerability addressed by Adobe could lead to code execution – that includes 15 use-after-free vulnerabilities, eight memory corruption vulnerabilities, five type confusion vulnerabilities, and five buffer overflow and heap buffer overflow bugs, as well as an integer overflow flaw.  

For more information on Adobe updates AdobeSecurity Bulletin

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Michael Glasser, Glasser Tech LLC (516) 762-0155

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