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July's security update included fixes for one actively exploited flaw, more than 30 bugs in Azure Site Recovery, and four privilege escalation bugs in Windows Print Spooler.

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Git is a distributed revision control system. Git prior to versions 2.37.1, 2.36.2, 2.35.4, 2.34.4, 2.33.4, 2.32.3, 2.31.4, and 2.30.5, is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all platforms. An unsuspecting user could still be affected by the issue reported in CVE-2022-24765, for example when navigating as root into a shared tmp directory that is owned by them, but where an attacker could create a git repository. Versions 2.37.1, 2.36.2, 2.35.4, 2.34.4, 2.33.4, 2.32.3, 2.31.4, and 2.30.5 contain a patch for this issue. The simplest way to avoid being affected by the exploit described in the example is to avoid running git as root (or an Administrator in Windows), and if needed to reduce its use to a minimum. While a generic workaround is not possible, a system could be hardened from the exploit described in the example by removing any such repository if it exists already and creating one as root to block any future attacks.

Implemented protections on AWS credentials that were not properly protected.

Linux kernel through 3.1 allows local users to obtain sensitive keystroke information via access to /dev/pts/ and /dev/tty*.

Intel microprocessor generations 6 to 8 are affected by a new Spectre variant that is able to bypass their retpoline mitigation in the kernel to leak arbitrary data. An attacker with unprivileged user access can hijack return instructions to achieve arbitrary speculative code execution under certain microarchitecture-dependent conditions.

New data from security training provider shows half of untrained users in consulting, energy, and healthcare industries fall for phishing attacks.

An issue was discovered in Druva 6.9.0 for macOS, allows attackers to gain escalated local privileges via the inSyncUpgradeDaemon.

Improper access control vulnerability in updateLastConnectedClientInfo function of SemWifiApClient prior to SMR Jul-2022 Release 1 allows attacker to access wifi ap client mac address that connected.

Whether data's in motion, at rest, or in use, confidential computing makes moving workloads to the public cloud safer, and can enhance data security in other deployments.