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146 CVEs were fixed during the August Patch Tuesday updates

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Updated onMarch 4, 2021

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The August Patch Tuesday Updates have arrived, andMicrosofthas truly outdone itself this time, bringing tones of new fixes, tweaks, and features for theWindows 10OS.

Of course, the highlight of these monthly updates is the security enhancements that everyone awaits, as it seems that 2020 has become an arms race betweenvulnerabilitiesand those that identify and fix them.

Here’s a brief rundown of how the year 2020 has been as far as CVEs are concerned:

Speaking of which, This month precisely 146 CVEs were identified and taken care of for bothMicrosoftandAdobeproducts as well.

Over 140 Microsoft and Adobe CVEs were identified

Over 140 Microsoft and Adobe CVEs were identified

This month brings fixes to a total of 146 CVEs, 26 of which are forAdobeproducts, while 120 are forMicrosoftproducts and, as usual, they vary in severity.

26 CVEs were discovered this past month when it comes to Adobe products, and they affect programs like Adobe Lightroom and  Acrobat Pro DC. These CVEs include common ones likeUse-After-Free (UAF), OOB Write, stack exhaustion, and memory corruption bugs.

Compared to other months, only one of the 26 identified CVEs were rated as Critical, and it is calledCVE-2020-9712.

A total of 120 CVEs were identified affecting Microsoft products likeMicrosoft Windows, Edge (EdgeHTML-based and Chromium-based), ChakraCore, Internet Explorer (IE), Microsoft Scripting Engine, SQL Server, .NET Framework, ASP.NET Core, Office and Office Services and Web Apps, Windows Codecs Library, and Microsoft Dynamics

This month marks yet another time when over 100 CVE were fount, bringing the grand total for the year 2020 to862, already exceeding the number of CVE identified in the entirety of 2019.

The 120 CVEs identified were rated as follows:

Which were some of the most severe CVEs?

For a complete list of all identified CVEs for the August Patch Tuesday updates, head over tothis dedicated article.

If you haven’t seen avulnerabilityyou are aware of on this list, then maybe you should wait until next month on September 8, since that’s when the next Patch Tuesday will be.

While a CVE is a common vulnerability and exposure, the CVSS is the overall score assigned to avulnerability, which showcases how severe it is.

The CVE database is maintained by MITRE, as it maintains both the CVE dictionary and public website.

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Milan Stanojevic

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Before joining WindowsReport, he worked as a front-end web developer. Now, he’s one of the Troubleshooting experts in our worldwide team, specializing in Windows errors & software issues.

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Before joining WindowsReport, he worked as a front-end web developer. Now, he’s specialized in Windows errors & software issues.