Microsoft Patch Tuesday stirs up plenty of hype, but not much cause for alarm

By Webcoup Admin

Published on July 11, 2016

Microsoft Patch Tuesday stirs up plenty of hype, not much cause for alarm

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Another month, another 11 security bulletins. According to SANS Internet Storm Center, none of the vulnerabilities addressed in the bulletin have known exploits, so it looks like another ho-hum Patch Tuesday — unless one of the patches starts misbehaving.There are the usual IE and Edge cumulative updates (MS16-084 and MS16-085), as well as a big one for Office (MS16-088). Three of patches are kernel related (MS16-089, MS16-090 and MS16-092). There’s an ever-popular .Net fix (MS16-091) and one for Adobe Flash (MS16-093). I can see your eyes glazing over.
The patch that caught my eye is the one for the Microsoft Print Spooler, MS16-087/KB 317005. That piqued my interest because of a doomsday piece on ZDNet: “An attacker can install malware on all affected systems,” Zack Whittaker writes. That claim is backed up by a post from Nick Beauchesne at Vectra, which was involved in reporting the flaw: “Own a printer, own a network with point and print drive-by,” Beauchesne writes.
The patch that caught my eye is the one for the Microsoft Print Spooler, MS16-087/KB 317005. That piqued my interest because of a doomsday piece on ZDNet: “An attacker can install malware on all affected systems,” Zack Whittaker writes. That claim is backed up by a post from Nick Beauchesne at Vectra, which was involved in reporting the flaw: “Own a printer, own a network with point and print drive-by,” Beauchesne writes.
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