Tripwire Patch Priority Index for April 2019

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Tripwire's April 2019 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together important vulnerabilities from Microsoft, Adobe, and Oracle. First on the patch priority list this month are patches for Microsoft's Browser and Scripting Engine. These patches resolve 13 vulnerabilities, including fixes for Memory Corruption, Browser Tampering, and Information Disclosure vulnerabilities. Next on the list are patches for Adobe Flash Player (APSB19-19). These patches address a critical Use-After-Free vulnerability and an important Out-Of-Bounds read vulnerability. Next on the list are patches for Microsoft Excel, Office, and Office Access. These patches resolve 7 vulnerabilities, including fixes for Remove Code Execution vulnerabilities. Up next are patches for Adobe Acrobat and Reader (APSB19-17) for Windows and macOS. These patches resolve 21 vulnerabilities, including fixes for Out-of-Bounds Read, Out-of-Bounds Write, Type Confusion, Use-After-Free, and Heap Overflow vulnerabilities. Next on the list are patches for Oracle Java with patches that address 5 vulnerabilities affecting Java SE, versions 7u211, 8u202, 11.0.2, and 12. Up next are patches for Microsoft Windows. These patches address 38 vulnerabilities across Windows Kernel, Jet Database Engine, GDI/GDI+, SMB, XML, DirectX, Windows Admin Center, TCP/IP, and VBScript. These patches fix 38 vulnerabilities, including Elevation of Privilege, Information Disclosure, Security Feature Bypass, and Remote Code Execution vulnerabilities. Finally this month, administrators should focus on server-side patches available for Microsoft SharePoint, Exchange Server, Team Foundation Server, and Azure DevOps Server. These patches resolve 13 vulnerabilities, including Elevation of Privilege, Spoofing, Cross-site Scripting, and HTML Injection vulnerabilities.

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