Microsoft has released a security advisory on the 10th of November 2021 in line with their regular monthly patch schedule which includes a number of updates to address high risk vulnerabilities currently being exploited in the wild and medium risk vulnerabliites.
These updates address vulnerabilities which may impact services thorugh Denial of Service, Elevation of Privilege, Remote Code Execution, Security Restriction Bypass, Information Disclosure, Spoofing and Data Manipulation
For more information please see: Microsoft Security Update Guide – Release Notes – November 2021 Security Update
This release consists of security updates for the following affected products, features and roles:
- 3D Viewer
- Azure
- Azure RTOS
- Azure Sphere
- Microsoft Dynamics
- Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based)
- Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) in IE Mode
- Microsoft Exchange Server
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Office Access
- Microsoft Office Excel
- Microsoft Office SharePoint
- Microsoft Office Word
- Microsoft Windows
- Microsoft Windows Codecs Library
- Power BI
- Role: Windows Hyper-V
- Visual Studio
- Visual Studio Code
- Windows Active Directory
- Windows COM
- Windows Core Shell
- Windows Cred SSProvider Protocol
- Windows Defender
- Windows Desktop Bridge
- Windows Diagnostic Hub
- Windows Fastfat Driver
- Windows Feedback Hub
- Windows Hello
- Windows Installer
- Windows Kernel
- Windows NTFS
- Windows RDP
- Windows Scripting
- Windows Virtual Machine Bus
Matsco recommends any affected systems are updated as soon as convenient.