October Patch Tuesday

There's been a long string of zero-day events through September and into the October Patch Tuesday lineup. Apple had five zero-day vulnerabilities across most of their products culminating in their updates that were released on September 26th (which also included the EoL of Big Sur). Google and Mozilla continued to be busy with several zero-day vulnerabilities in the open-source library, Libwebp. This also impacted chromium-based browsers like Microsoft Edge, Opera and others. Microsoft has resolved 104 new CVEs this month, three of which are flagged as exploited. The lineup from Microsoft includes Windows, Office 365, SQL Server, Exchange Server and multiple Azure components. Along with the large lineup of fixes, October also marks the end-of-life for Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2.