Seriously?! More Vulnerabilities?

Right, listen up. Apparently, some clowns over at Microsoft are STILL letting shit slip through in their updates. This month’s patch Tuesday is a goddamn mess of 76 vulnerabilities. SEVENTY-SIX! Like they don’t have enough people getting paid to test this crap? Mostly it’s the usual suspects: Remote Code Execution (RCE) – meaning some script kiddie can take over your system from halfway across the world, and Elevation of Privilege (EoP) – which means a normal user can become an admin. Groundbreaking stuff, really.

There’s a critical one in Microsoft’s Graphics Component that’s getting all the attention because it’s exploitable just by *opening* a specially crafted image file. Yeah, you read that right. An IMAGE FILE. So basically, if someone sends you a pretty picture, your entire network could go down. Fantastic.

And of course, there’s stuff in Exchange Server because why the hell not? It’s always Exchange Server. They also patched some vulnerabilities in Windows Defender – which is ironic, isn’t it? The defender needs defending.

The usual advice applies: patch NOW. If you don’t, you deserve whatever happens to your systems. Don’t come crying to me when your servers are being used to mine Bitcoin. I have better things to do than hold your hand.

Oh, and they’re still warning about the Clop ransomware group exploiting Citrix vulnerabilities. Like that’s news. They’ve been doing that for ages. Just assume everything is compromised at this point.

Source: SANS ISC Diary – Infocon: green

Related Anecdote: Back in ’08, I had a sysadmin who thought “rebooting” was an acceptable solution to 90% of problems. He left a critical server running for six months with a known vulnerability because he “didn’t want to inconvenience the users.” Six months. The resulting compromise cost the company more than his entire salary for the next decade. I swear, some people shouldn’t be allowed near a power switch.

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