This February Patch Monday bulletin is light on patches but heavy on impact. Adobe released an initial security advisory on February 2^nd stating that there was a critical vulnerability that is actively being attacked. This was followed by the release of an update on February 5^th. This vulnerability is leveraged in drive-by-download attacks and should be applied as soon as possible. Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox can be applied as soon as they have been tested if they are applicable to the environment. This month is a good month to take a look at the patch management strategy. It is important to quickly remediate vulnerabilities that are being actively attacked like Adobe Flash this month. This may be an opportune time to evaluate workstation privileges as well. Removing local admin rights on the workstation is a best practice and will reduce the impact of attacks on client software like Adobe, Chrome, and Firefox.

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So, without further ado, here’s the chart of non-MS patches that affect Windows platforms in the past month.