October 2020 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft fixes potentially wormable Windows TCP/IP RCE flaw - Help Net Security

October 2020 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft fixes potentially wormable Windows TCP/IP RCE flaw - Help Net Security

On this October 2020 Patch Tuesday:


Microsoft has plugged 87 security holes, including critical ones in the Windows TCP/IP stack and Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise
Adobe has delivered security updates for Adobe Flash Player
Intel warns about flaws in BlueZ, the official Linux Bluetooth protocol stack
SAP has released 15 security notes and updates to 6 previously released ones.


Microsoft’s updates


Microsoft has released patches for 87 CVE-numbered flaws in a variety of its offerings: 11 critical, 75 important, and one of moderate severity. None of the fixed vulnerabilities are currently being exploited, though six of them were previously publicly known.


Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative’s Dustin Childs has singled out a few that should be addressed quickly:


CVE-2020-16898 – A Windows TCP/IP vulnerability that could be rem ..

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