April 2016 Patch Tuesday Releases 13 Security Patches; Addresses the Badlock Vulnerability13 security bulletins were released in this month?s Patch Tuesday addressing vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Office, and Microsoft XML Core Services, among others. Out of these bulletins, six are rated as ?Critical? while seven are tagged as ?Important.? Both MS16-037 and MS16-038 which fixed vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer and Edge respectively, could allow remote code execution when exploited successfully.
Perhaps, the most notable among the vulnerabilities resolved in this month?s Patch Tuesday is MS16-047, more popularly known as the Badlock vulnerability that has been circulating in the last few weeks. With all the hype, this vulnerability, which affects all Windows systems and Samba servers, only received an ?Important? rating. One of our researchers wrote a detailed entry debunking the hype surrounding this vulnerability.
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April 2016 Patch Tuesday Releases 13 Security Patches; Addresses the Badlock Vulnerability
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April 2016 Patch Tuesday Releases 13 Security Patches; Addresses the Badlock Vulnerability
