Join Thousands Who Have Benefitted from the Virtual Event of the Year - WATCH NOW Against all odds, Microsoft gifted us with another relatively simple Patch Tuesday (aside from the surprise IE Zero Day CVE-2019-1429). Who knows what December will bring at this rate. Of course, Patch Tuesday wasn’t completely without issue with a few notable issues in the field, and not just from Microsoft!

As always, here are the quick links to stay up to date on any developing known issues:

Patch Tuesday Follow-Up

While this isn’t directly related to an update, Google Chrome graced headlines this week with an experimental feature that’s frustrating administrators across the globe.

According to BleepingComputer, Google remotely enabled “WebContent Occlusion” across all v77 and v78 major versions on Patch Tuesday. This caused terminal server environments to be plagued by the aptly named “White Screen of Death”. After a flood of complaints to Google’s support forums, the change was reversed on Thursday. In the aftermath of this issue, enterprise administrators have raised extreme concerns around Google’s ability to modify Chrome configurations without any opt-in or blocking method available, so we will have to see what position Google takes from here.

Administrators have been reporting issues with Microsoft’s Malicious Software Removal Tool since Patch Tuesday, with installation failures across whole environments. This has been covered in depth by Woody on Windows and Born City where it appears the issue was around an improperly signed binary. It appears this has since been fixed, so refreshing the binary on your patching solution should resolve the issue.

Third-Party Updates

While the Microsoft updates have defined the week, other vendors have been releasing updates for their respective products. See the list below as these updates can still contain valuable security fixes.

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Bulletin ID

KB

Adobe Acrobat DC and Acrobat Reader DC 19.021.20056

ARDC19-014

QADC1902120056

Adobe Flash Player 32.0.0.293

AFP32-00293

QAF3200293

DropBox 85.4.155

DROPBOX-125

QDROPBOX854155

GoodSync 10.10.12.2

GOODSYNC-134

QGS1010122

Google Backup and Sync 3.47.7654.0300

GSYNC-025

QGBS34776540300

Microsoft Power BI Desktop 2.75.5649.582

PBID-072

QBI2755649582

Nitro Pro 13.6.0.108

NITRO-029

QNITRO1360108

Nitro Pro Enterprise 13.6.0.108

NITROE-010

QNITROE1360108

NVivo 12.6.0.959

NVIVO-005

QNVIVO1260959

Opera 65.0.3467.38

OPERA-237

QOP650346738

Opera 65.0.3467.42

OPERA-238

QOP650346742

Paint.net 4.2.5

PDN-012

QPDN425

Plex Media Player 2.45.0

PLXP-048

QPLXP2450

Plex Media Server 1.18.1.2019

PLXS-050

QPLXS11812019

Plex Media Server 1.18.2.2029

PLXS-051

QPLXS11822029

RealVNC Viewer 6.19.1115

VNCV-003

QVNCV6191115

Skype 8.54.0.91

SKYPE-170

QSKY854091

Snagit 2020.0.1

SNAG-031

QSNAG2001

Thunderbird 68.2.2

TB19-6822

QTB6822

Visual Studio Code 1.40.0

MSNS19-1108-CODE

QVSCODE1400

Visual Studio Code 1.40.1

MSNS19-1114-CODE

QVSCODE1401

VMWare Horizon Client 5.2.0

VMWH-011

QVMWH5200

VMware Workstation 14.1.8 Pro

VMWW-026

QVMWW1418

Zoom Outlook Plugin 4.8.5743.1107

ZOOMOUT-013

QZOOMO485743