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Microsoft fixes 16 critical vulnerabilities on Patch Tuesday

May 13, 2020

Microsoft has released fixes and updates covering a total of 111 common vulnerabilities and exploits (CVEs), 16 of them rated as critical, on yet another huge Patch Tuesday.

Alongside the usual round of updates for Microsoft operating systems, browsers, Office and SharePoint products, the May patches also include updates for .NET Framework, .NET Core, Visual Studio, Power BI, Windows Defender and Microsoft Dynamics.

This is the second set of Patch Tuesday updates to have been released since the beginning of the global Covid-19 coronavirus lockdowns and, as was the case in April, the May patches will pile extra pressure on security teams struggling to keep on top of the additional workloads they are seeing. They must not be ignored, however.

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