Government warns towards vulnerabilities for some Microsoft customers: All particulars

The Government has issued a excessive threat warning for some Microsoft customers. The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-IN) has issued a warning towards vulnerabilities fors ome Microsoft companies and merchandise. This contains Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Visual Studio and .NET Framework.

As per a report from CERT-IN, the vulnerabilities present in these Microsoft companies are of severity and excessive threat. Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported which might bypass safety restrictions within the given Microsoft companies and merchandise.

CERT-IN is a nodal company below the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. This authorities physique is accountable for reporting bugs and cybersecurity threats like hacking and phishing assaults.

CERT has reported, “Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in varied Microsoft merchandise which could possibly be exploited by an attacker to escalate arbitrary code, disclose delicate info, bypass safety restrictions and carry out denial of service (DoS) assault of the focused system.”

Moreover, the federal government establishment has suggested the customers of those Microsoft merchandise to use the newest safety patch primarily based on Microsoft’s September 2022 safety replace.

Security updates can be found for the next Microsoft services and products:

.NET and Visual Studio

.NET Framework

Azure Arc

Cache Speculation

HTTP.sys

Microsoft Dynamics

Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based)

Microsoft Graphics Component

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office SharePoint

Microsoft Office Visio

Microsoft Windows ALPC

Microsoft Windows Codecs Library

Network Device Enrollment Service (NDES)

Role: DNS Server

Role: Windows Fax Service

SPNEGO Extended Negotiation

Visual Studio Code

Windows Common Log File System Driver

Windows Credential Roaming Service

Windows Defender

Windows Distributed File System (DFS)

Windows DPAPI (Data Protection Application Programming Interface)

Windows Enterprise App Management

Windows Event Tracing

Windows Group Policy

Windows IKE Extension

Windows Kerberos

Windows Kernel

Windows LDAP – Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

Windows ODBC Driver

Windows OLE

Windows Photo Import API

Windows Print Spooler Components

Windows Remote Access Connection Manager

Windows Remote Procedure Call

Windows TCP/IP

Windows Transport Security Layer (TLS)

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