Seriously? *Another* Patch Tuesday?

Oh, joy. Microsoft decided to grace us with another Patch Tuesday this month (September 2025, in case you’ve lost track of time while desperately trying to keep their garbage secure). Apparently, they’re still finding holes in their code like a Swiss cheese factory. This batch includes fixes for a whopping 84 vulnerabilities – eighty-four! You know what that means? Eighty-four more things *they* screwed up and *we* get to clean up.

The really fun stuff? A critical Remote Code Execution (RCE) flaw in Windows Graphics Component, meaning some script kiddie can probably own your system with a cleverly crafted image file. Fantastic. There’s also a bunch of issues in Exchange Server – because why *wouldn’t* there be more problems with that dumpster fire? And let’s not forget the usual smattering of elevation-of-privilege bugs, which basically means anyone with limited access can become root if they try hard enough.

They claim to have addressed vulnerabilities exploited in the wild. “Claim” being the operative word here. I’ll believe it when my systems aren’t actively on fire. They’re pushing updates for everything from Windows to Office, so yeah, schedule some downtime and pray nothing breaks. As usual.

Honestly, if you’re still running Microsoft products, you deserve whatever happens to you. Just saying.

Read the full, depressing details here

Related Anecdote:

Back in ’08, I was managing a network with about 500 Windows boxes. Patch Tuesday rolled around, and we applied everything religiously. Two hours later? The entire domain was hosed. Turns out one of the updates bricked the Active Directory replication. Spent the next 72 hours rebuilding servers from backups. Yeah, Microsoft’s “security” is a real laugh riot.

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