Microsoft's March 2021 Patch Tuesday Includes Fixes for 82 CVEs

On March 9, Microsoft addressed 82 CVEs as part of its March 2021 Patch Tuesday release, 10 of which were rated as critical, including CVE-2021-26411, a zero-day remote code execution vulnerability in Internet Explorer that was exploited in the wild.

This month's Patch Tuesday release includes fixes for a variety of Microsoft apps and services including Application Virtualization, Azure, Azure DevOps, Azure Sphere, Internet Explorer, Microsoft ActiveX, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based), Microsoft Graphics Component, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office Excel, Microsoft Office PowerPoint, Microsoft Office SharePoint, Microsoft Office Visio, Microsoft Windows Codecs Library, Power BI, DNS Server, Hyper-V, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Windows Admin Center, Windows Container Execution Agent, Windows DirectX, Windows Error Reporting, Windows Event Tracing, Windows Extensible Firmware Interface, Windows Folder Redirection, Windows Installer, Windows Media, Windows Overlay Filter, Windows Print Spooler Components, Windows Projected File System Filter Driver, Windows Registry, Windows Remote Access API, Windows Storage Spaces Controller, Windows Update Assistant, Windows Update Stack, Windows UPnP Device Host, Windows User Profile Service, Windows WalletService, and Windows Win32K. 

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