Microsoft has addressed over 170 CVEs in the October Patch Tuesday, including six zero-day vulnerabilities.
According to UK / EMEA News Reporter, Infosecurity Magazine, this month's Patch Tuesday list includes three zero-day vulnerabilities that are being actively exploited.
“With no user interaction required, this will go straight into an attacker’s standard toolkit,” warned Rapid7 lead software engineer, Adam Barnett. “There’s very little information in the advisory itself, but someone out there knows exactly how to exploit this vulnerability.”
Author's summary: Microsoft fixes six zero-day vulnerabilities in October's Patch Tuesday.