Microsoft closes 12-year-old vulnerability CVE-2021-24092 in Defender (Feb. 9, 2021)

Posted on 2021-02-12 by guenni

[German]On patchday (February 9, 2021), Microsoft also fixed the CVE-2021-24092 vulnerability in Defender, which has probably existed for at least 12 years. This allows an attacker to elevate privileges under Windows, and this without the user's intervention. However, there is no known exploitation.

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0-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer fixed via micropatch

Posted on 2021-02-12 by guenni

There is a 0-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer 11 that was not fixed with the February 2021 updates. ACROS Security has now released a micropatch to close this vulnerability in Internet Explorer. I have added the relevant notes in the article 0patch fixes 0-day in Internet Explorer.

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WSUS 3.0 SP2: Sync fails since Feb. 2021

Posted on 2021-02-12 by guenni

Windows Update[German]Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) 3.0 SP2 seems to have lost its synchronization feature a few days ago, as blog reader Martin B. just told me via email (thanks for that). Addendum: It seems that the issue has been fixed since a couple of hours.

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Windows 10 V1909 Out-of-Band Update KB5001028

Posted on 2021-02-12 by guenni

[English]Microsoft has released a special update KB5001028 for Windows 10 version 1909 on February 11, 2020. This is supposed to fix a problem with WLAN connections that leads to a stop error.

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Adobe Reader/DC Update (Feb. 9, 2021) drops error 1722 in Windows

Posted on 2021-02-11 by guenni

[German]German blog reader Martin E. alerted me last night to a problem with yesterday's Adobe Reader/Acrobat DC security update. There are massive installation problems on Windows with the Adobe Reader /Acrobat DC security update dated February 9, 2021 (the setup ends with Error 1722). It probably affects systems when no user is logged in to the system, as I saw during a quick research. Root cause is a new UWP app from Adobe, but there is a workaround.

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Patchday Microsoft Office Updates (February 9, 2021)

Posted on 2021-02-11 by guenni

[German]On February 9, 2021 (second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft Patchday), Microsoft has released several security-related updates for still supported Microsoft Office versions and other products. Here is an overview of the available updates.

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Patchday: Windows 8.1/Server 2012 Updates (February 9, 2021)

Posted on 2021-02-10 by guenni

Windows Update[German]As of February 9, 2021, Microsoft has released various updates for Windows 8.1. However, these updates are also available for Windows Server 2012 R2. Here is some information about them.

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Patchday: Updates for Windows 7/Server 2008 R2 (9. Februar 2021)

Posted on 2021-02-10 by guenni

Windows Update[German]On February 9, 2021, Microsoft released various (security) updates for Windows 7 SP1 (ESU) and Windows Server 2008 R2. Here is the overview of these updates.

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Patchday: Windows 10-Updates (February 9, 2021)

Posted on 2021-02-10 by guenni

[German]On February 9, 2021 (second Tuesday of the month, Patchday at Microsoft), several cumulative updates were released for the supported Windows 10 builds. Here are some details about each update.

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Microsoft Security Update Summary (February 9, 2021)

Posted on 2021-02-10 by guenni

[German]On February 9, 2021, Microsoft released security updates for Windows clients and servers, for Office, Internet Explorer, and so on. Here you can find a compact overview of these updates. A list of the updates can be found on this Microsoft page. Details about the update packages for Windows, Office, etc. are available in separate blog posts.

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