Microsoft releases March 2023 Security Updates

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Microsoft has released March 2023 Security Update. The list of security updates is quite long and affects many components of Windows and applications, some of them are:

• Visual studio

• Windows HTTP Protocol stack

• Windows Internet Key Exchange (IKE) Protocol

• Microsoft Office Outlook

• Microsoft Office Excel

Take into consideration that "Windows 10 updates are cumulative, and that this monthly security release includes all security patches for vulnerabilities that affect Windows 10, in addition to non-security updates", according to information provided by Microsoft on the Release Note.

Some of the more important and critical CVEs addressed are:

CVE-2023-1018 - TPM2.0 Module Library Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CVE-2023-1017 - TPM2.0 Module Library Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CVE-2023-23393 - Windows Broker Infrastructure Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CVE-2023-23404 - Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2023-23398 - Microsoft Excel Spoofing Vulnerability

CVE-2023-23411 - Windows Hyper-V Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVE-2023-23416 - Windows Cryptographic Services Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

To read the whole list of CVEs addressed, go to the Microsoft March 2023 Release Note.