Microsoft Released Critical Security Updates with Patch for 50 Critical Vulnerabilities

Microsoft security updates released for June 2018 contains fixes for more than 50 vulnerabilities including for some of the products Critical remote code execution vulnerability.

Patch update released for some of the widely used Microsoft Product such as Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office and Microsoft Office Services and Web Apps, ChakraCore, Adobe Flash Player.

In this updates, several products patched the remote code execution vulnerability and Memory Corruption Vulnerability especially Microsoft edge and Microsoft Windows.

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Apart from Microsoft Products, this June patch Tuesday updates contains an Adobe Flash Player zero-day (CVE-2018-5002) update.

Remote Code Execution Flaw Affected Products

Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer based Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities are fixed with this security updates.

A remote code execution vulnerability exists when Microsoft Edge and  Internet Explorer improperly accesses objects in memory. The vulnerability could corrupt memory in such a way that enables an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user.

Microsoft Office based Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability also patched which leads to an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could perform script/content injection attacks.

Windows-based remote code execution vulnerability also fixed that exists when Windows improperly handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited these vulnerabilities could take control of an affected system.

HTTP Protocol Stack (Http.sys) also contain remote code execution flaw that improperly handles objects in memory. So An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could execute arbitrary code and take control of the affected system.

Microsoft Security Updates List

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Edge & Internet Explorer

Device Guard

Windows Hyper-V

Windows Kernel

Microsoft Scripting Engine

Microsoft also released a standalone security advisory  KB4338110, for padding oracle attack that Performs against encrypted data that allows the attacker to decrypt the contents of the data, without knowing the key.