Microsoft has finally released its Patch Tuesday updates this month. This time, the installers are huge, mainly due to the lack of updates last February
The company released a total of 17 security updates with its March Patch Tuesday to fix 134 vulnerabilities in its software. According to the announcement, 8 of the updates have been classified as critical.
So first of all, you should prioritize installing MS17-006 and MS17-007, which are cumulative updates for Internet Explorer and Edge. The vulnerabilities they fix could allow an attacker to take control of a system when a user browses to a malicious site with one of the two browsers.
Additionally, critical patches are MS17-008, MS17-009, MS17-010, and MS17-011. Of course, they should be first on your priority list as they address vulnerabilities that could allow remote code execution in the affected versions of Windows.
There is also another patch that fixes vulnerabilities in the Windows operating system. It is codenamed MS17-012, and Microsoft says that attackers are trying to exploit it by using applications that have connected to an iSNS server and then issue malicious requests to the server.
Updates are also coming for other Microsoft products, such as Office, Skype for Business, and Microsoft Silverlight.
And finally, with Microsoft's Patch Tuesday in March, Microsoft released the Adobe Flash Player update for the operating systems Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows RT 8.1, Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016. The Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer applications have Flash Player built in.
