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by John W. Simek, Vice President of Sensei Enterprises, Inc.

Patch Outlook Now!

February 15, 2018

Microsoft's February patch update has fixes for 50 bugs affecting its products, including two dangerous Outlook bugs. One of the patches fixes a memory corruption flaw, which could allow an attacker to run arbitrary code. Opening a malicious e-mail attachment or viewing it in the Outlook Preview pane is enough to trigger the bug and allow the malicious code within the attachment to start running. This means it's possible for the code to install malware or take over the whole computer. The other nasty bug is a privilege escalation bug that is triggered when Outlook receives a specialty crafted message that forces it to load a message store over SMB from a local or remote server. No user interaction is needed to trigger the bug. Just receiving the message is enough to get it started. Run over to Windows Update and install the updates right away.

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