Microsoft tops last month’s record with 622 Patch Tuesday CVEs


Remember last month when we were awed by Microsoft’s record-setting Patch Tuesday that addressed 206 CVEs? That was a quaint era compared to this month: Redmond just rolled out patches for 622 CVEs specific to its products, slightly more than tripling last month’s all-time high.

Redmond’s Patch Tuesday release is once again one for the record books, with everything under the sun getting some security fixes – including 428 non-Microsoft Chromium CVEs affecting Edge that aren’t included in that 622 count. Fifty-eight of those are critical, two are under active exploit, and one has already been publicly disclosed, meaning it could join those other two in short order.

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Source:  The Register


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