[German]On Jugust 8, 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 this month. Below is an overview of the available updates.
Brief hint for Windows users who work with the credentials management to have credentials saved. Instead of deleting entries manually, this can be done with a few lines of batch code. I recently came via Twitter across the corresponding batch program and put the information as a tip here in the blog.
[German]As of August 8, 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]On August 8, 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. Continue reading
[German]On August 8 (second Tuesday of the month, patchday at Microsoft), several cumulative updates were released for the supported Windows 10 builds (from RTM version to current version) as well as for the Windows Server counterparts. Here are some details on the respective security updates for Windows 10.
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[German]Microsoft has released security updates for Exchange Server 2016 and Exchange Server 2019 as of August 8. These security updates close vulnerabilities in this software. The updates are intended to be installed on systems in a timely manner to address the vulnerabilities in question.
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[German]On August 8, 2023, Microsoft released security updates for Windows clients and servers, for Office – as well as for other products. The security updates eliminate 73 vulnerabilities, one is a 0-day. Below is a compact overview of these updates released on patchday.
[German]Another brief addendum from the July 2023 patchday, because the August 2023 security updates are luring around the corner. I received some user reports that July 2023 updates on Windows 10 (KB5028166) and Windows Server 2022 (KB5028171) are causing a black screen. In the case of Windows Server 2022, Supermicro server systems are particularly affected. Here's a brief summary, what's reported.
[German]Another small addendum to a problem with Outlook. In the blog, I had picked up on the annoying behavior that Outlook appointments have automatically become Teams meetings for some time. At the weekend, I came across a workaround and a blog reader has now also pointed me to this solution (thanks for that). In addition, Microsoft has corrected the behavior with a Teams plugin update.
[German]Microsoft has updated the Edge browser to versions 115.0.1901.200 and 114.0.1823.106 as of August 7, 2023, July 17. In addition to fixing bugs and performance issues, Chrome vulnerabilities and Edge vulnerability CVE-2023-38157 have been fixed in both versions (thanks to 1ST1 for pointing this out).
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