With the information security industry’s two largest conferences (Black Hat Briefings and Def Con) set to happen in less than a month, Microsoft pulled out all the stops and, for July, nearly tripled the number of patches they released in June for problems discovered in Windows, Office, and software that runs under various server and cloud platforms.
The single product most prominently featured in the hot summer flood of fixes is Microsoft SQL Server. The Microsoft SQL Server Native Client component of this month’s update will fix 38 distinct remote code execution bugs in the OLE database driver. An attacker might invoke any of the bugs in the OLE DB driver by tricking an authenticated account into connecting to a malicious SQL Server database;
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Source: Sophos
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