Microsoft’s December Patch Tuesday Fixes Actively Exploited Zero-Day and Critical RCE Vulnerabilities

In its final Patch Tuesday of 2024, Microsoft released security updates to address 71 vulnerabilities, including an actively exploited zero-day flaw.

The latest security update rollout also includes fixes for 16 flaws deemed critical, predominantly remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities.

Breakdown of addressed vulnerabilities

As BleepingComputer reported, the shortcomings addressed in Microsoft’s latest release span a broad range of categories, including:

* 27 Elevation of Privilege f