December’s (2024) Patch Tuesday Damage Report

** 2 Weeks After Patch Tuesday **

Thankfully this month has persisted in being relatively quiet with nothing major of note regarding widespread system instabilities.

Everyone have a great holiday season and rest of the year! Let’s hope Microsoft’s new year’s resolution is to release updates that don’t break shit 🙂

Server 2022

• Point and Print capability disrupted with suggested driver update required

Server 2016

• Microsoft Print to PDF not working

Windows 11

• Start menu not working on VDI Citrix hosts

Miscellaneous

• Lockout timing seemingly shorter than expected

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** 72 Hours After Patch Tuesday **

Scattered reports of odd disruptions across a variety of Windows versions this month, none though, seemingly systemic. Not quite the holiday gift I was hoping for, but at least no sweeping Blue Screen of Deaths this month.

No disruptions detected or reported on the trackd platform.

Server 2025

• Kerberos Local Key Distribution Center not starting

Server 2022 

• One obscure claim Server 2022 update bricked a handful of devices?

Server 2019

• Services not starting automatically on Hyper-V guests

Windows 10

• Shell launcher crashing every second

Miscellaneous

• Certain keyboard shortcuts not working (CTRL+B)
• Edge shortcuts not rendering

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Happy holidays! 

A month to rejoice? A Christmas miracle? Just one (1) critical vulnerability this month and only one (1) zero day, albeit actively exploited, the exploit code maturity is listed as ‘unproven.’ That said, this month’s Patch Tuesday update resolves a total of 72 vulnerabilities. 


So are you patching before Christmas or what?

Zero Day

• CVE-2024-49138 – Windows Common Log File System Driver Elevation of Privilege