Welcome to this August Patch Tuesday Bulletin. This month there are 94 unique CVE’s, 0 exploited or disclosed, and 7 with workarounds or mitigations. While there are no attacks or disclosed vulnerabilities there are some important vulnerabilities to review. There are two critical vulnerabilities very similar to the ‘BlueKeep’ vulnerability and possibly wormable. Review CVE-2019-1181 and CVE-2019-1182 to ensure updates are applied. Both vulnerabilities have mitigations and workarounds that may help add a level of security to systems in the event updates cannot be deployed fast enough. CVE-2019-9506 is an interesting vulnerability that affects Bluetooth enabled devices. An attacker would need specialized hardware and must be within typical Bluetooth range to attack the device. The update adds enforcement of Bluetooth key length, but enforcement is not enabled by default. Follow directions in the Microsoft advisory for this CVE for instructions to enable enforcement. Finally, there is a denial of service vulnerability in CVE-2019-9511, CVE-2019-9512, CVE-2019-9513, CVE-2019-9514, CVE-2019-9518. A workaround exists for these vulnerabilities in the event updates cannot be deployed in a timely manner.

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So, without further ado, here’s the chart of MS patches this month.