Microsoft and Adobe Patch Tuesday, October 2024 Security Update Review

**Qualys Patch Tuesday — October 2024 (Executive Summary)**: Microsoft and Adobe released October 2024 security updates covering numerous flaws — Microsoft fixed 121 vulnerabilities (3 critical, 114 important) including two zero-days confirmed exploited in the wild; Adobe released advisories addressing 52 vulnerabilities (31 critical). The advisory highlights multiple high-impact RCEs, elevation-of-privilege, and other issues across Windows components (Hyper-V, Kernel, MSHTML, RDP, OpenSSH, ConfigMgr, etc.), provides CVE examples and mitigation controls, and urges timely patching and configuration mitigations via Qualys VMDR and Policy Compliance.