A few days ago, as usual, Microsoft released its classic Windows 10 patch on Tuesday with a total of 87 vulnerabilities fixed. Problems that affected both the operating system itself and other company products and vulnerabilities that could be considered high risk for us.
The most concerning of all is identified as CVE-2020-16898. A critical remote code execution error that could lead to one of the oldest network attacks, the one known as ping of death and we will see why it is considered a highly dangerous one
The fixed bug is described as a remote code execution vulnerability in the Windows TCP / IP stack. It happens when this element of the system incorrectly handles certain ICMPv6 router packets. “An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the ability to execute code on the target server or client,” Microsoft says.
In practice, a ping of death could occur. If the attacker acts in a certain way, as Sophos researchers have shown, they can end up breaking down the system. We would see a blue screen of death that would remain and if we are doing any work it is most likely that everything we are doing will be lost. This vulnerability can not only cause our equipment to malfunction or fail but it can also make us deal with malicious programs such as Malwares and that is why we must be quick and update this vulnerability due to its wide possibilities of risk that we can suffer.
Microsoft and other security experts have tried to disclose fair information about this vulnerability, but cybercriminals are more than likely to be working hard to exploit this vulnerability given its spread after Patch Tuesday. That is why it is so important to update as soon as possible given so that the fault is solved.
