14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft announced earlier today that it would release seven different security bulletins as part of this month’s Patch Tuesday cycle, with both Windows and Internet Explorer to get critical updates.
It turns out that Microsoft will also fix the Windows kernel vulnerability reported by Google researcher Tavis Ormandy in early June, even though the company was expected to patch it a lot sooner.
Ormandy found the flaw a couple of months ago and after trying to contact Microsoft and provide more information about the vulnerability, it decided to make all details public.
Ormandy claimed that Microsoft “treats vulnerability researchers with great hostility” and the company “is often very difficult to work with,” so he decided to publish the exploit online and thus force the software giant patch it sooner.
More details about the vulnerability can be found here.