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Microsoft’s Malware Protection Engine Vulnerable

Posted on December 7, 2017 at 02:23 CST by Kirsty • Comment in the Forums

Gunter Born has posted a new topic here on a vulnerability in Defender & Security Essentials:

I received this night (Germany) a notification from Microsoft about a critical vulnerability in Microsoft’s Malware Protection Engine (CVE-2017-11937). All Windows versions using either Defender or Microsoft Security Essentials or Forefront are affected. But there are no updates available – and the link within Microsoft’s Update Catalog are broken.

He is calling for information and insights. Can you help?

Check it out here:
Critical vulnerability in Microsoft’s Malware Protection Engine (CVE-2017-11937)

UPDATE:

Defender and MSE are updating itself – and it seems that yesterday the Security module has been updated.

Windows Patches/Security CVE, CVE-2017-11937, Forefront, Microsoft Security Essentials, Vulnerability, Windows Defender

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