[German]There is a vulnerability in the library and tool curl in older versions, which was closed by the project on October 11, 2023 with version 8.4.0. Microsoft ships curl with Windows, and the question was whether curl was also updated for Patchday, October 10, 2023. My status is that Windows still includes the outdated curl version after the October 2023 updates.
[German]At the end of September 2023, the cloud provider Shadow was hacked via one of their hosters. The platform is used by online gamers, and three blog readers emailed me about the incident (thanks for that). The hackers are now trying to sell captured data from gamers.
[German]On October 10, 2023 (second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft Patchday), Microsoft released several security-related updates for still-supported Microsoft Office versions and other products. With the April 2023 patchday, support for Office 2013 ended – but vulnerabilities were still closed. Below is an overview of the available updates.
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[German]As of October 10, 2023, various security updates have been released for Windows Server 2008 R2 (in its 4th ESU year) and for Windows Server 2012/R2 (the updates may still install on Windows 7 SP1). Here is an overview of these updates for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012/R2.
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[German]There are serious vulnerabilities in older products from Citrix, as the manufacturer announced in a security alert. Both the Citrix NetScaler ADC and the Citrix NetScaler Gateway are affected by the vulnerabilities CVE-2023-4966 and CVE-2023-4967. An update is urgently recommended, meanwhile the download is probably also possible.
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[German]The developers of Thunderbird have released another update of the email client to version 115.3.2 on October 11, 2023 (thanks to reader for the tip). It is an update which is supposed to fix numerous bugs, but does not contain any new features and security fixes.
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As of October 10, 2023, Mozilla developers have released the Firefox 118.0.2 update. The updates fixed several bugs (see the release notes). Thanks to the reader for the tip.
As of October 11, 2023, Exchange Online has experienced a severe mail traffic disruption. Several readers reported problems receiving emails from external email addresses. Microsoft has confirmed the incident and claims to have already rolled out a fix. Spoiler: They fell victim to their own SPAM protection, which they rolled out on patchday.
Google has released updates to the Google Chrome browser 118 in the stable channel for Mac, Linux and Windows on October 10, 2023. The entry ican be found on the Google blog. The stable channel has been updated to version 118.0.5993.70 for macOS and Linux. For Windows, the update updates the browser to version 118.0.5993.70/.71.
[German]On October 10, 2023 (second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft patch day), Microsoft also released cumulative updates for Windows 11 22H1 and 22H2. In addition, Windows Server 2022 received an update. Here are some details about these updates, which are supposed to fix vulnerabilities as well as problems.
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