Microsoft Patch Tuesday for February 2023 — Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities

Microsoft released its monthly security update on Tuesday, disclosing 73 vulnerabilities. Of these vulnerabilities, 8 are classified as “Critical”, 64 are classified as “Important”, one vulnerability is classified as “Moderate.”

According to Microsoft none of the vulnerabilities has been publicly disclosed before Patch Tuesday and only one vulnerability CVE-2023-21823, a privilege escalation vulnerability, was seen in the wild.

Three of the most “Critical“ vulnerabilities, which Microsoft considers to be “more likely” to be exploited are CVE-2023-21689, CVE-2023-21690 and …

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