Microsoft Patches 53 Vulnerabilities In Windows, IE And Office

During the November Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has 53 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Office and several other products poem, including four zero-day vulnerabilities. The total contribution amounts to four twelve security updates, which are labeled as critical.

Critical updates address vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker to run arbitrary code on the computer can perform, without much user interaction. These four are updates for Internet Explorer, Edge and Microsoft Windows. There are also updates for Office, Lync, Skype for Business and .NET Framework appeared. Most leaks are fixed in Internet Explorer, namely 25.

In the case of the four zero-day vulnerabilities were those found in Windows and Office. It involved vulnerabilities that had already been announced for the release of the patches. According to Microsoft, there are no indications that the vulnerability for the appearance of the updates are attacked. An overview of all published Security Bulletins on this page to find. Updating via the Automatic Update feature, which is enabled on most Windows computers.

Automatic Update QuickTime Does Not Work On Windows 10

There is a problem with the automatic update feature of QuickTime on Windows 8 and 10, which indicates that the updater users up-to-date, even though there is a new version available. In August released QuickTime 7.7.8 in which multiple critical vulnerabilities were patched.

Through the nine vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to crash the progam or arbitrary code on the computer can perform, such as installing malware. The opening of a malicious media file would be sufficient in this case.

According to Alton Blom this is probably because QuickTime is not automatically on Windows 8 and 10 installs a new version, while this is the case with other Windows versions. Blom approached Apple. The company informed him that QuickTime 7.7.8 for Windows 7 and Vista is designed. When Apple this version also automatically on Windows 8 and will roll out later is unknown. Users can as a temporary solution to the latest version from the Apple website to download. Although this is in accordance with Blom initially did not work, the version offered would now be able to be installed without difficulty.