[German]On October 10, 2023, Microsoft released security updates for Windows clients and servers, for Office – as well as for other products. The security updates eliminate 103 vulnerabilities, two are 0-day vulnerabilities. Below is a compact overview of these updates that were released on patchday.
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[German]I'm bringing up again an issue that has been bothering administrators for months, but probably hit some machines running Windows Server 2022 with the September 2023 security updates. After installing security update KB5030216, the machines can no longer boot. This also applies to virtual machines running Hyper-V or VMware ESXi.
[English]Various updates for Windows 10 and 11 were released by Microsoft in September. The cumulative update KB5030219 for Windows 11 22H2 from September 12, 2023 (patch day) causes a broken Start menu, problems with games or trouble with Explorer. Then on September 26, 2023, there was the preview update KB5030310, which also causes problems. Here are some of the problems in a kind of gleaning.
[German]I'll post a short information for Sharepoint administrators here in the blog. Microsoft has already published an authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2023-29357) in June 2023. So the vulnerability can be closed via update. Now a security researcher has made public an exploit to exploit the vulnerability.
[German]Microsoft has made an U turn on a recent announcement that photos in albums on OnDrive would be counted twice in storage usage. The latest statement is that photos in albums will not be added to storage capacity if the photos are stored as files on OnDrive gallery.
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[German]A buffer overflow vulnerability CVE-2023-4911 exists in the Gnu-C library (glibc) in the dynamic loader used to execute programs. The vulnerability, discovered by Qualys' Threat Research Unit (TRU), is called Looney Tunables and has probably existed since 2021. In the worst case, attackers could gain root privileges on the Linux system via the vulnerability. In the meantime, however, most Linux distributions ship a patch for the affected systems.
[German]As of September 12, Microsoft has released various security updates for Office 2013, 2016 and the click-to-run variants (2016-2021 as well as Office 365). There has been some feedback from users on the blog regarding problems. I'll summarize the problems in a review – one crash problem has been fixed in the meantime.
[German]Microsoft has released the update KB5001716 for machines with older Windows 10 versions on Oct. 3, 2023. The package updates the Update Service components so that the machine can be updated to a newer Windows 10 build. Here's a brief overview of what the update does and how it gets onto machines.
[German]After a preview phase that started in spring 2023, Microsoft has now released its Teams 2.0 client for macOS and Windows in general. The promise: This new client is supposed to use fewer resources and also be faster than the old client. And some new features have probably been added.
[German]The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched a market investigation into cloud services in the UK. Following an investigation by Ofcom, the aim is to examine in more detail whether there are any competition concerns and, if so, what measures can improve the offering of these important services to UK customers.
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