This month’s Patch Tuesday update is, by Microsoft standards, fairly quiet. There is only one fix rated critical and one rated important, though the firm does warn both the associated vulnerabilities are at particular risk of exploitation.
The critical issue involves Microsoft’s XML Core Services features. These allow programmers to produce Windows applications based on XML. That’s a successor to HTML which allows programmers to create their own tags. Whereas HTML tags only affect they way information appears (for example as bold or an image caption), XML lets you organize data, for example marking a particular section of text as a recipe or a postal address.
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