March Patch Tuesday

Here in the Midwest US, we have a saying about March, “In like a lion, out like a lamb.” This is in reference to the month starting with strong winter weather and letting off as the month progresses. In fact, we just had a blizzard that dropped 9-12 inches of snow across most of the region overnight, but a week later I see grass and sunny skies and have shed the winter coat!

At first glance, March Patch Tuesday looks like a lamb, but this lamb might have the teeth of a lion. The standard lineup of updates resolves 57 CVEs across the Windows OS, Office, .Net and Visual Studio, with a couple of Azure component updates in the mix. Google Chrome updated in the lead up to Patch Tuesday (March 10 update), and Adobe released seven updates, including Adobe Acrobat and Acrobat Reader.