Microsoft today released its February 2020 Patch Tuesday security updates. This month's updates include fixes for 99 vulnerabilities, making this Patch Tuesday the largest ever released.
This month's security highlight represents the fix for CVE-2020-0674, a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer.
On January 17, Microsoft disclosed ongoing attacks where hackers were using this IE zero-day, but at the time, the operating system was unable to provide a patch. That patch is now included with this month's cumulative security updates.
But there are another 98 patches, of which the 11 bugs they fix have been rated as “critical.”.
Most critical errors are remote code execution errors and memory errors in services such as the Remote Desktop Protocol service, LNK files, and the Media Foundation component.
Other than that, there's nothing really special to report. This month, Microsoft's patches are simply "massive" than ever, but there aren't any bugs that need to be addressed in a hurry, like in previous months.
Patch Tuesday updates are all delivered together, so accepting fixes will automatically install patches for all 99 security at once.
Additional useful information about Patch Tuesday can be found below, including links to security fixes issued by other companies:
- Microsoft's official update table contains all security updates in one table.
- This month's Adobe security updates are available here.
- SAP security updates are detailed here.
- Google Chrome security updates were released last week and you can find them here.
- Firefox security updates were released today and you can find out about them here.
