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Microsoft's February Patch Tuesday Update Fixes Windows Zero-Day Vulnerability, 56 Other Critical Bugs
News 18Microsoft has released its monthly batch of security-update that addresses 56 security vulnerabilities, including a Windows bug that was out in the wild, without any detection. The zero-day exploit tracked as CVE-2021-1732 is said to be a ‘Windows Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability,’ meaning it allows an attacker or malicious programme to elevate their privileges to administrative privileges. The new monthly security update also called Patch Tuesday eleven ‘Critical’ bugs and 43 ‘Important’ bugs. In a separate blog post, Microsoft says that the company has addressed two Critical Remote Code Execution vulnerabilities and an Important Denial of Service vulnerability. Lastly, Microsoft says it has fixed a Windows DNS Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability that has a severity score of 9.8 out of 10.
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