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This Patch Tuesday fixed three critical vulnerabilities, all remote code execution flaws.The number of bugs in each vulnerability category is listed below:
28 Elevation of Privilege vulnerabilities
7 Security Feature Bypass vulnerabilities
43 Remote Code Execution vulnerabilities
6 Information Disclosure vulnerabilities
26 Denial of Service vulnerabilities
7 Spoofing vulnerabilitiesThis month's Patch Tuesday fixes five zero-days, two of which were actively exploited in attacks, and all five were publicly disclosed.
Win11 24H2, and its problems, have been dominating the news, so I waited a little longer to post this in case issues with the updates bubbled to the surface. Microsoft notes the following issue with KB5044273 for Win10, while their only notes for Win11's KB5044285 are a reminder that this is it, last update for 22H2, which has now reached EOL, and after installing the October Update if you're running ARM hardware you'll be unable to download and play Roblox via the Store.
For Win10...
After installing this update, you might experience a black screen when you login to Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD). You might also notice that you are unable to log out of your account and the black screen persists even after disconnecting and reconnecting to AVD. Resulting from this issue, the application event log in Event viewer will show an application error with Event ID:1000 indicating a fault with the application ‘svchost.exe_AppXSvc’.Please note that AppX Deployment Service (AppxSvc) being in an invalid state could also cause other symptoms like the Start Menu to close unexpectedly due to registration issues. If you are observing the ‘svchost.exe_AppXSvc’ faulting application name in your application event logs, please apply the Known Issue Rollback (KIR) mentioned in the resolution section before trying to troubleshoot other symptoms.