July 2020 Patch Tuesday forecast: Will the CVE trend continue? - Help Net Security

July 2020 Patch Tuesday forecast: Will the CVE trend continue? - Help Net Security

Microsoft has averaged roughly 90 common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE) fixes per month over the past five months. With everyone working from home and apparently focused on bug fixes, I expect this large CVE fixing trend to continue. Despite these record CVE numbers, the actual number of updates have been down; we haven’t seen Exchange or SQL Server updates in a while.



The hot topic of conversation over the last two weeks has been the release of out-of-band security updates for CVE-2020-1425 and CVE-2020-1427, both of which address a memory issue within the Microsoft Windows Codecs Library.


While Microsoft does security updates out-of-band from time to time, the points of contention were these updates were only available from the Microsoft Store and were released with very limited information. The fact that CVE-2020-1425 is ..

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