November 2019 Patch Tuesday: Actively exploited IE zero-day fixed - Help Net Security

November 2019 Patch Tuesday: Actively exploited IE zero-day fixed - Help Net Security

November 2019 Patch Tuesday comes with patches for an IE zero-day exploited by attackers in the wild and four Hyper-V escapes.



Microsoft updates


Microsoft has delivered fixes for 74 vulnerabilities in various products, 13 of which are deemed to be critical. The most notable ones in this batch are:


CVE-2019-1429, a scripting engine memory corruption vulnerability that, according to researchers of the Google Threat Analysis Group, is being exploited in attacks in the wild to achieve remote code execution
CVE-2019-16863, a flaw effecting STMicroelectronics Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chipsets, which impacts key confidentiality in the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA).

The former can be triggered in several ways.


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