January 2020 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft nukes Windows crypto flaw flagged by the NSA - Help Net Security

January 2020 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft nukes Windows crypto flaw flagged by the NSA - Help Net Security

As forecasted, January 2020 Patch Tuesday releases by Microsoft and Adobe are pretty light: the “star of the show” is CVE-2020-0601, a Windows flaw flagged by the NSA that could allow attackers to successfully spoof code-signing certificates and use them to sign malicious code or intercept and modify encrypted communications.



Microsoft’s patches


Microsoft has released security patches for a variety of its products, including Windows, Internet Explorer, Office and Office Services and Web Apps, ASP.NET, .NET Core, .NET Framework, OneDrive for Android, and Microsoft Dynamics.


The company fixed 49 CVE-numbered vulnerabilities, eight of which are deemed critical, but none of which are currently under attack (as far as they know).


As mentioned before, CVE-2020-0601 will grab t ..

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