“Patch Tuesday” is an unofficial term used to refer to the second Tuesday of each month, when Microsoft, Adobe, Oracle, Google and other vendors regularly release software patches for their software products. Critical security updates are occasionally released outside of the normal Patch Tuesday cycle, but these are known as “Out-of-band” releases. Security updates for October 8th 2024 include 2 critical flaws under active exploitation among a total of 117 vulnerabilities this month.