In this month’s Patch Tuesday release there are 49 vulnerabilities patched with 12 Criticals. Out of the criticals, over half are browser-related, with the rest including Hyper-V and MSXML Parser.  Microsoft Exchange covers CVE-2010-3190 which was not identified as in-scope product when originally published, per Microsoft. Microsoft Office covers 9 Important CVEs including Sharepoint and Graphics component.

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The ntpd program is an operating system daemon that sets and maintains the system time in synchronization with Internet standard time servers. As described in CVE-2013-5211, a denial of service condition can be caused by the use of the "monlist" feature, which is enabled by default on most NTP servers. NTP runs over UDP port 123, and since it’s on a UDP port, the source address can be spoofed easily.

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