Microsoft’s final Patch Tuesday updates for 2024 address 72 security flaws, including CVE-2024-49138, an actively exploited privilege escalation vulnerability in the Windows Common Log File System (CLFS) Driver. This marks the ninth patched vulnerability in this component this year.
Originally published in The Hacker News.
Excerpt: “In total, Microsoft has resolved as many as 1,088 vulnerabilities in 2024 alone, per Fortra.”
