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Bloated Patch Tuesday brings fix for nasty Word/RTF/Net vulnerability

Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 04:16:00 -0700

Microsoft on Tuesday released 259 individual security patches, covering 82 security holes (counting by CVE number). You may feel rushed to apply those patches, particularly when you hear about a really bad vulnerability involving Word, RTF, and the .NET Framework. The facts are a little less alarmist.

Here’s a quick overview. The SANS Internet Storm Center has its usual handy list of CVEs and whether there are any known exploits. Martin Brinkmann at Ghacks stacks them up this way:

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