Microsoft has issued its software patch for the month of August this week. The patch is called Tuesday and it fixes fifty-two vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Office and Windows Server. Tuesday also includes non-security fixes for Windows 10 and a bulletin for the new browser, Edge. Along with the fifty-two bug fixes are fourteen bulletins and three of them are labelled "critical".
According to The Inquirer, MS15-079 is the most severe among those which are rated critical. The bulletin fixes memory corruption in Internet Explorer, which, if targeted by a bug, can give the same user privileges of the owner to the hacker. The other critical bulletin is MS15-080. The patch fixes flaws in Microsoft Graphics Component, targeting bugs that allow remote code execution.
The last patch among those rated critical is M15-091, which is made especially for Edge, the renamed and revamped Internet Explorer. Like Ms15-080, the patch fixes bugs which allow remote code execution using the internet browser. Edge has just been introduced as part of the Windows 10 roll out.
"This security update is rated 'critical' for supported releases of Microsoft Windows and all affected editions of Microsoft.NET Framework, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Lync and Microsoft Silverlight," said Trustwave threat intelligence manager, Karl Sigler. There are still other bulletins included on Tuesday and some of them are rated "important". Such bulletins are the MS15-082 and MS15-090. The patches are still targeted towards fixing flaws in Windows Server and Internet Explorer.
Microsoft's patch Tuesday has been issued on August 11, Tuesday. The past week has seen big names in the tech industry being victimised by malicious bugs. As such, companies like Google, Samsung and LG have begun issuing monthly patches to address the vulnerabilities. Most recently, Mozilla Firefox has also given its latest version a bug fix for a vulnerability that purportedly steals files.
