[German]On February 14, 2023 (second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft Patchday), Microsoft released several security-related updates for still-supported Microsoft Office versions and other products. A critical remote code execution vulnerability in Word is closed. Below is an overview of the available updates. Continue reading
Microsoft has updated the Edge browser in the stable channel to version 110.0.1587.46 on February 14, 2023 (thanks to Robert for the tip). Microsoft did not reveal too much in the release notes for this maintenance update, only "Fixed various bugs and performance issues".
Small addendum, Google has already released updates of the Google Chrome browser 110 in the Stable Channel for Mac, Linux (110.0.5481.96) and Windows (110.0.5481.96/.97) until February 13, 2023 (see this entry in the Google blog). In the Extended Stable Channel, version 110.0.5481.96 is available for Windows and Mac. Then on 2/14/2023, version 10.0.5481.100 for Windows, Mac and Linux was pushed to the Stable Channel. Thanks to Robert for the hint.
[German]The Mozilla developers have released the versions 110.0 and 102.8.0 ESR of the Firefox browser on February 14, 2023. The ESR versions are maintenance updates that are supposed to fix bugs. Firefox 110 is a new development branch. In both updates, vulnerabilities are fixed. Thanks to the reader for the tip.
[German]As of February 14, various security updates have been released for Windows Server 2008 R2 (in its 4th ESU year) as well as Windows Server 2012/R2 (the updates may still install on Windows 7 SP1 and Windows 8.1). Here is an overview of these updates for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012/R2.
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[German]On February 14, 2023 (second Tuesday of the month, Patchday at Microsoft), 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 issues.
[German]On February 14, 2023 (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.
[German]Microsoft has released security updates for Exchange Server 2013, Exchange Server 2016, and Exchange Server 2019 as of February 14, 2023. These security updates close four vulnerabilities (rated as important) in this software. The updates are intended to be installed on systems in a timely manner to close the vulnerabilities in question.
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[German]On February 14, 2023, Microsoft released security updates for Windows clients and servers, for Office, etc. – as well as for other products – released. The security updates fix 75 vulnerabilities, of which 9 are critical, 66 are important and 3 are 0-day vulnerabilities. Below is a compact overview of these updates released on patchday.
[German]Microsoft has made a few mistakes in the TCP implementation of Windows 10 and Windows 11 that severely limit the possible performance of TCP/IP connections. A blog reader brought this to my attention and immediately pointed out ways to possibly optimize something like this. I'm going to present it in a blog post for interested administrators in enterprise environments.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
