Microsoft's updates for this month affect Windows, SQL Server, Microsoft Excel and Visual Studio and will require a significant amount of testing.

Patch Tuesday update addresses five zero days, with eight other vulnerabilities likely to be exploited within weeks.

Patch Tuesday updates for October 2024 manage to tackle many vulnerabilities affecting Microosft Office, and Microsoft Edge.

Microsoft's October 2024 Patch Tuesday addresses 118 vulnerabilities, two under active exploitation. Apply fixes now.

A second exploited zero-day, CVE-2024-43573, is a Windows MSHTML platform spoofing vulnerability, which enables threat actors to trick users into believing they are visiting a legitimate site in order to harvest information or inject malicious payloads.

Microsoft has released the October security patches for Windows systems. The most critical updates address vulnerabilities in the remote access server and telephony. Other notable updates include patches for Remote Registry,