A total of 98 vulnerabilities were fixed on January Patch Tuesday 2023 by Microsoft, including a zero-day vulnerability that was exploited actively, and a handful of other weaknesses.
This Patch Tuesday 2023 marks the first of the year, and it covers fixes for 98 vulnerabilities, including 11 that are rated ‘Critical,’ which is the highest class of vulnerability.
In order to assign this severity level, Microsoft has taken into consideration that the vulnerabilities enable attackers to achieve the following illicit abilities:-
Security updates are included in this release for the following products, features, and roles:-
Below you’ll find a list of the number of bugs that fall into each of the vulnerability categories:-
Here below we have mentioned all the flaws detected and patched:-
As of January 2023, some of the following vendors have released updates to their products:-
According to Microsoft, the Extended Security Update (ESU) program for Windows 8.1 will not be offered as part of the Windows 8.1 upgrade program; as the users are advised to upgrade to Windows 11 instead.
So, Windows 8.1 may pose a security risk to organizations if it is continued to be used after January 10, 2023.
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