Those responsible for Kaspersky antivirus have released a report in which they detail how two of these most serious errors have been used to gain illegitimate access to computers without the need to interact with them in person, that is, they can send you a file by mail or through of a link and infect your computer and prevent you from controlling it.
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These errors also make use of Google Chrome, the most used Internet browser in the world, so the ease with which they could infect computers is even greater.
The security flaws, according to Kaspersky, would have been discovered at first in April of this year, but they have not been isolated and solved until this same month of June.
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Kaspersky insists in its report that these errors are especially important for companies, since they are the main target of hackers who seek to disable remote computers.
This is the list of the most important vulnerabilities with which they have found:
CVE-2021-31955 - Windows Kernel Information Disclosure Vulnerability
CVE-2021-31956 - Windows NTFS Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
CVE-2021-33739 - Microsoft DWM Core Library Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
CVE-2021-33742 - Windows MSHTML Platform Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
CVE-2021-31199 - Microsoft Enhanced Cryptographic Provider Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
CVE-2021-31201 - Microsoft Enhanced Cryptographic Provider Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
CVE-2021-31968 - Windows Remote Desktop Services Denial of Service Vulnerability
Fortunately, Microsoft has acted quickly and has released a solution to all of them in its latest update, so it is vitally important that you install the latest version on your computer if you want to be more protected.
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