Microsoft has released updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft software. A remote attacker can exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system.

The January 2021 security release consists of security updates for the following software:

• Microsoft Windows

• Microsoft Edge (EdgeHTML-based)

• Microsoft Office and Microsoft Office Services and Web Apps

• Microsoft Windows Codecs Library

• Visual Studio

• SQL Server

• Microsoft Malware Protection Engine

• NET Core

• NET Repository

• ASP .NET

• Azure

Further information on vulnerabilities and updates is available at the following links:

• https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/releaseNote/2021-Jan

• https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/20210112/security-update-deployment-information-january-12-2021