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Microsoft today released updates to plug at least 89 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software. November's patch batch includes fixes for two zero-day vulnerabilities that are already being exploited by attackers, as well as two other flaws that were publicly disclosed prior to today.

### Summary An unsafe reading of environment file could potentially cause a denial of service in Netty. When loaded on an Windows application, Netty attemps to load a file that does not exist. If an attacker creates such a large file, the Netty application crash. ### Details When the library netty is loaded in a java windows application, the library tries to identify the system environnement in which it is executed. At this stage, Netty tries to load both `/etc/os-release` and `/usr/lib/os-release` even though it is in a Windows environment. <img width="364" alt="1" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9466b181-9394-45a3-b0e3-1dcf105def59"> If netty finds this files, it reads them and loads them into memory. By default : - The JVM maximum memory size is set to 1 GB, - A non-privileged user can create a directory at `C:\` and create files within it. <img width="340" alt="2" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/43b359a2-5871-4592-ae2b-ffc40ac76831"> <img...

Adaptive Shield is the third security posture management provider the company has acquired in the last 14 months as identity-based attacks continue to rise.

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There is some disagreement over whether the remote code execution (RCE) security flaws allow for unauthenticated exploitation or not. Citrix says no, but researchers say the company is downplaying a "good old unauthenticated RCE."

Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-9092-03 - An update for freerdp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Issues addressed include heap overflow, integer overflow, and out of bounds read vulnerabilities.

The security vulnerability is due to an exposed Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) instance and the use of the insecure BinaryFormatter.

CISA should make its recommended goals mandatory and perform audits to ensure compliance.

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**Why is this advisory published to the Security Updates Guide Vulnerabilities tab instead of the Advisories tab?** We are publishing this advisory to the Security Update Guide's Vulnerabilities tab to document the related defense in depth security updates in the Deployments tab. Generally advisories do not contain security updates. However Microsoft Engineering elected to provide them to ensure customers could ensure they are protected. Please reference the Security Updates table or the Deployments tab to find the security update for related to your product.