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October 2019 Patch Tuesday: A small batch of updates from Microsoft, none from Adobe

Help Net Securityby @zeljkazorz ()3 min read3 · 1 read
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CVEVulnerabilityCVSSEPSSSignalsPublished
CVE-2019-1315
Elevation of Privilege in Microsoft Windows Error Reporting Manager via Hard Link Abuse
7.83%KEVRansomware
KEV
CVE-2019-1365
+1 related CVE
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Microsoft IIS Server fails to check the length of a buffer prior to copying memory to it.An attacker who…
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group max
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CVE-2019-1372
An remote code execution vulnerability exists when Azure App Service/ Antares on Azure Stack fails to check the length of a buffer prior to copying memory to…
10.019%

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As predicted by Ivanti’s Chris Goettl, October 2019 Patch Tuesday came with a relatively small number of Microsoft updates and, curiously enough, with no security updates from Adobe. There is no report of any of the Microsoft bugs being exploited, but there is public PoC code for and info about a local privilege escalation flaw in Windows Error Reporting ( CVE-2019-1315 ).

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