Wednesday, 09 July 2025

Microsoft releases October 2023 security updates

Microsoft has released updates to address vulnerabilities in Microsoft software. Microsoft has fixed multiple security vulnerabilities with Microsoft's October 2023 Patch Tuesday.

Of the fixed vulnerabilities: 3 are security feature bypass vulnerabilities,26 elevation of privilege vulnerabilities, 45 are remote code execution vulnerabilities, 12 are information disclosure vulnerabilities, 17 are denial of service vulnerabilities, 1 is spoofing vulnerabilities.

This month's Patch Tuesday includes fixes for three zero-day vulnerabilities:

CVE-2023-41763 - Skype for Business Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability;

CVE-2023-36563 - Microsoft WordPad Information Disclosure Vulnerability;

CVE-2023-44487 - HTTP/2 Rapid Reset Attack - Distributed denial of service vulnerability (DDoS).

More information on vulnerabilities and updates is available in the Microsoft’s October 2023 Security Updates page – microsoft.com.

Source: bleepingcomputer.com

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