Microsoft has released an out-of-band update for its Malware Protection Engine to patch several remote code execution and denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerabilities discovered by Google Project Zero researchers.
Version 1.1.13804.0 of the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine, released on Thursday, addresses a total of eight vulnerabilities identified by various members of Google Project Zero, including Mateusz Jurczyk, Tavis Ormandy, Lokihart and Ian Beer.
Jurczyk has been credited for finding four of the security holes, namely CVE-2017-8536, CVE-2017-8538, CVE-2017-8537 and CVE-2017-8535.
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