Daily Archives: October 25, 2023

• Apple security updates October 25, 2023

  Posted on October 25, 2023 at 15:13 CDT by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  Apple is out with some security updates today:

  Like with any device – ensure you have a backup BEFORE installing updates.  No actively exploited bugs are included in this batch, but there are interesting bugs that are getting squashed.

  I’ll be adding this to the master list tonight and tracking any side effects.

  iOS 17.1 and iPadOS 17.1	iPhone XS and later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 2nd generation and later, iPad Pro 10.5-inch, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 6th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th generation and later
  iOS 16.7.2 and iPadOS 16.7.2	iPhone 8 and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 5th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th generation and later
  iOS 15.8 and iPadOS 15.8	iPhone 6s (all models), iPhone 7 (all models), iPhone SE (1st generation), iPad Air 2, iPad mini (4th generation), and iPod touch (7th generation)
  macOS Sonoma 14.1	macOS Sonoma
  macOS Ventura 13.6.1	macOS Ventura
  macOS Monterey 12.7.1	macOS Monterey
  tvOS 17.1	Apple TV HD and Apple TV 4K (all models)
  watchOS 10.1	Apple Watch Series 4 and later
  Safari 17.1	macOS Monterey and macOS Ventura

  Apple Master Patch List, Patch Lady Posts

• Out of band .NET update?

  Posted on October 25, 2023 at 14:51 CDT by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  This time of the week and month we normally get the optional Windows updates to Windows 11 and 10. So far this week, I’ve yet to see the optional updates, however we got two interesting updates that were a re-release of some of the security updates released earlier in the month.

  https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/-net-6-0-update-october-24-2023-kb5032874-c7206ee0-8768-496c-a122-eac43b8b85c9

  https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/topic/-net-7-0-update-october-24-2023-kb5032875-1c20c4da-3b7e-414f-b7e7-5947358c33d9

  Apparently they forgot to include the September fixes in their October releases.  “Microsoft is releasing an update to October 10, 2023 security release.  The .NET 6.0.24 release contain the security fixes from our previous September release that were missing in the October release.” Now not all machines may see this, you typically only get .NET 6 and 7 updates if something has installed these .NET versions on your machines.  I have not seen side effects, but anytime I see a re-release with a kinda dumb reason like this that showcases once again a lack of testing and follow up,  come on Microsoft you can do better.
  Bottom line if you got a restart this morning (and why a person in the office couldn’t connect to cellular on his Surface with LTE and called me this morning and I had him reboot and sure enough a .NET patch got installed), well there is your answer.
  Windows Patches/Security Master Patch List, Patch Lady Posts