Patch Tuesday for October 2022 begins. Several cumulative updates are therefore arriving, some of which are aimed at Windows. Microsoft provides security updates for all supported client and server versions.
This major monthly maintenance is an important appointment. It helps to strengthen Windows security while offering improvements and bug fixes. We also have security updates for other products like Azure, Active Directory Domain Services, Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Office, NuGet Client, and Remote Access Service Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol.
This Patch Tuesday is marked by a greater availability of the upgrade to Windows 11 22H2. It is normally available to all eligible PCs with no restrictions due to known bugs.
Please note there are known issues with Windows 7, Windows 10 and Windows 11
Windows and Patch Tuesday for October 2022
As part of extended support Microsoft fixes 43 vulnerabilities in Windows 7. Eight flaws are rated critical. We have a spoofing vulnerability with Microsoft’s Cryptographic Application Programming Interface (CVE-2022-34689) and seven vulnerabilities concerning the PPTP aka Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol with the possibility of remote code execution
Windows 8.1 is affected by the same issues.
For its part, Windows 10 20H2, 21H1 and 21H2 is the victim of 64 vulnerabilities, 9 of which are critical. Once again we find the same flaws as those affecting Windows 7 and a privilege elevation failure in Hyper-V (CVE-2022-37979).
Finally Windows 11 and Windows 11 22H2 are victims of the same security problems as Windows 10. We thus have 64 vulnerabilities of which 9 are critical and 55 important.
All this little world is corrected through various cumulative updates
Finally here are the direct links for a download and a manual installation.