Welcome to this January Patch Monday Bulletin. This month brings patches for Acrobat, Reader, Thunderbird and Java. While there are only 4 patches listed in this bulletin there are quite a bit of vulnerabilities that will be fixed. As usual, work on Adobe Flash and Acrobat/Reader first this month. There were no known attacks for vulnerabilities that are being remediated this month but these first two patches are common targets. January is the first Oracle quarterly Critical Patch Update for 2017 and hopefully you are ready for it. There were 17 CVE’s for Java that are remediated with this patch release. Finally, Thunderbird released a patch in late December after the last patch bulletin. Start looking into how patching can be streamlined with the regularly scheduled patches from Adobe and Java. Monthly or quarterly patch cycles can be developed to quickly test and deploy these patches throughout the environment with the goal of reducing the attack surface as much as possible.

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