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Today, Microsoft has release their monthly set of security updates designed to address vulnerabilities. This month’s release addresses 56 vulnerabilities with 15 of them rated critical and 41 rated important. Impacted products include .NET, DirectX, Edge, Internet Explorer, Office, Sharepoint, and Windows.

In addition to the coverage Talos is providing for the normal monthly Microsoft security advisories, Talos is also providing coverage for CVE-2017-0290, the MsMpEng Malware Protection service vulnerability in Windows reported by Natalie Silvanovich and Tavis Ormandy of Google Project Zero. Snort rule SIDs for this specific vulnerability are 42820-42821.

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