During late September and early October we noted a set of interesting vulnerabilities reported by Cisco, accompanied by mitigation and update instructions. Of course, no specific details were given, but the available information is enough to conclude that they are pretty dangerous. Let's walk through them one by one.
Two fixes are worth mentioning: the first is about handling vulnerable Intel CPUs, the second addresses the Copy-on-Write mechanism.
Microsoft published various updates to their products that contained 79 patches. Let's skim through the most prominent ones.
An avalanche of updates to many popular browsers came to public. The reason is a nasty vulnerability in one of the dependencies of Chromium engine.
This update contains a good number of security fixes.