Microsoft patches October 2022 vulnerabilities
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Microsoft releases security patches including CVE-2022-41033, which is being actively exploited in the wild.
On October 12, 2022 (Japan Standard Time), Microsoft released security patches addressing multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft products. The IPA (Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan) alert identifies CVE-2022-41033 as actively exploited, with Microsoft confirming in-the-wild abuse. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities could result in application crashes, arbitrary code execution, or complete system compromise. The alert emphasizes urgent patching via Windows Update to prevent escalating compromise. No additional technical details on affected products or exploitation vectors are specified in this advisory.
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Source reporting: https://www.ipa.go.jp/archive/security/security-alert/2022/1012-ms.html
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