Microsoft's March updates fix 61 vulnerabilities, including critical Hyper-V flaws

Microsoft released its monthly security update on Tuesday, fixing 61 different security flaws across its software, including two critical issues affecting Windows Hyper-V that could lead to denial-of-service (DoS) and remote code execution.


Of the 61 vulnerabilities, two are rated critical, 58 are rated important, and one is rated low severity. None of the flaws were publicly known or listed under active attack at the time of publication, but six of them were tagged with a "high potential for exploitation" assessment.


The fixes are in addition to 17 security flaws that have been patched in the company's Chromium-based Edge browser since the February 2024 Patch Tuesday update was released.


Topping the list of critical flaws are CVE-2024-21407 and CVE-2024-21408, which affect Hyper-V and can lead to remote code execution and a DoS condition, respectively.


Microsoft's update also fixes privilege escalation flaws in Azure Kubernetes ...........reaad more