Microsoft Addresses 111 Bugs for May Patch Tuesday

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Microsoft Addresses 111 Bugs for May Patch Tuesday:

Microsoft has released fixes for 111 security vulnerabilities in its May Patch Tuesday update, including 16 critical bugs and 96 that are rated important.

Unlike other recent monthly updates from the computing giant this year, none of the flaws are publicly known or under active attack at the time of release.

Along with the expected cache of operating system, browser, Office and SharePoint updates, Microsoft has also released updates for .NET Framework, .NET Core, Visual Studio, Power BI, Windows Defender, and Microsoft Dynamics.

The majority of the fixes are important-rated elevation-of-privilege (EoP) bugs. There are a total of 56 of these types of fixes in Microsoft's May release, primarily impacting various Windows components. This class of vulnerabilities is used by attackers once they've managed to gain initial access to a system, in order to execute code on their target systems with elevated privileges.

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