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Microsoft has published on Tuesday two out-of-band security updates to patch two vulnerabilities in the Microsoft Windows Codecs Library.<\/p>\n

Tracked as CVE-2020-1425<\/a> & CVE-2020-1457<\/a>, the two bugs only impact Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019 distributions.<\/p>\n

In security advisories published today, Microsoft said the two security flaws can be exploited with the help of a specially crafted image file.<\/p>\n

If the malformed images are opened inside apps that utilize the built-in Windows Codecs Library to handle multimedia content, then attackers would be allowed to run malicious code on a Windows computer and potentially take over the device.<\/p>\n

The two bugs — described as two remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities — received patches earlier today.<\/p>\n

The patches have been deployed to customer systems via an update to the Windows Codecs Library, delivered through the Windows Store app — not the Windows Update mechanism.<\/p>\n

“Customers do not need to take any action to receive the update,” Microsoft said.<\/p>\n

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Redmond said the bugs were privately reported and they haven’t been used in the wild before today’s patches.<\/p>\n

The OS maker said it learned of the bugs after a report from Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative, a program that intermediates communications between security researchers and larger companies. Microsoft credited Abdul-Aziz Hariri for first discovering these bugs, before passing them to the ZDI team.<\/p>\n

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