Windows 10 and 11, April 2023 Patch Tuesday begins, all the details

Patch Tuesday for April 2023 has just started. It gives rise to several cumulative updates, some of which target Windows 11 and Windows 10. The focus is security. We also have bug fixes and new features.

This fourth major monthly maintenance from Microsoft deploys security updates for many products in its catalog. They target in particular .NET Core, Azure, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Edge, Visual Studio and the Windows operating system including Windows 10 21H2 and 22H2 and Windows 11 21H2 and 22H2.

Windows and the April 2023 Patch Tuesday.

In detail Microsoft corrects 56 vulnerabilities in Windows 10 21H2 and 22H2, five of which are considered critical. We have a flaw affecting PGM alias Windows Pragmatic General Multicast allowing remote code execution (CVE-2023-28250), three flaws in the Point-to-Point protocol also allowing remote code execution (CVE-2023-28232, CVE-2023-28220 et CVE-2023-28219) and a vulnerability in Microsoft Message Queuing ( CVE-2023-21554).

For its part, Windows 11 (21H2 and 22H2) is the victim of 59 vulnerabilities, five of which are considered critical. These are the same critical flaws as those of Windows 10. Microsoft also offers improvements and bug fixes.

The correction of all this little world is entrusted to the cumulative updates

Download and installation are provided by the Windows Update service. It is also possible to retrieve them manually for offline installation. Here are the direct links:

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