Microsoft Patches 41 Internet Explorer Vulnerabilities
Found on eWEEK on Tuesday, 10 February 2015
Microsoft's first Patch Tuesday of 2015 did not patch a single Internet Explorer flaw. Today's February Patch Tuesday update is a very different story, with Microsoft patching a staggering 41 vulnerabilities in IE. In total, Microsoft patched 56 vulnerabilities spread across nine security bulletins.
"I cannot remember when a single Microsoft patch included 41 CVEs, let alone an IE update so large," Andrew Storms, vice president of Security Services at New Context, told eWEEK. "If you consider that all of the Microsoft patches in 2014 added up to 343 CVEs, then we are well on our way already to surpass that number in 2015."
IE is always the biggest update. Pretty annoying especially if you do not use IE at all since it is impossible to remove it completely from a Windows system thanks to its deep integration in the OS.