January 2016 Microsoft Patch Tuesday - SANS Internet Storm Center

Overview of the January 2016 Microsoft patches and their status.

#	Affected	Contra Indications - KB	Known Exploits	Microsoft rating(**)	ISC rating(*)
#	Affected	Contra Indications - KB	Known Exploits	Microsoft rating(**)	clients	servers
MS16-001	Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (Replaces MS15-124 )
MS16-001	Internet Explorer CVE-2016-0002, CVE-2016-0005	KB 3124903	no.	Severity:Critical Exploitability: 1,2	Critical	Critical
MS16-002	Cumulative Security Update for Microsoft Edge (Replaces MS15-125 )
MS16-002	Microsoft Edge (Windows 10 only) CVE-2016-0003, CVE-2016-0024	KB 3124904	no.	Severity:Critical Exploitability: 1	Critical	Critical
MS16-003	Cumulative Security Update for JScript and VBScript to Address Remote Code Execution (Replaces MS15-126 )
MS16-003	JScript/VBScript (IE8/9/10/11, Vista and 2008 only) CVE-2016-0002	KB 3125540	no.	Severity:Critical Exploitability: 1	Critical	Critical
MS16-004	Security Update for Microsoft Office to Address Remote Code Execution (Replaces MS14-024, MS15-131, MS15-116, MS15-110, MS12-060 )
MS16-004	Microsoft Office CVE-2015-6117, CVE-2016-0010, CVE-2016-0011, CVE-2016-0012, CVE-2016-0035	KB 3124585	no.	Severity:Critical Exploitability: 3,2,2,1,1	Critical	Important
MS16-005	Security Update for Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers (Replaces MS15-072, MS15-073 )
MS16-005	Vista or newer and 2008 or newer CVE-2016-0008, CVE-2016-0009	KB 3124584	no.	Severity:Critical Exploitability: 2,1	Critical	Critical
MS16-006	Security Update for Silverlight to Address Remote Code Execution (Replaces MS15-129 )
MS16-006	Silverlight CVE-2016-0034	KB 3126036	no.	Severity:Critical Exploitability: 1	Critical	Important
MS16-007	Security Update for Microsoft Windows to Address Remote Code Execution (Replaces MS13-062, MS14-041, MS13-101, MS13-011, MS12-004, MS14-071 )
MS16-007	Vista or newer and 2008 or newer CVE-2016-0014, CVE-2016-0015, CVE-2016-0016, CVE-2016-0018, CVE-2016-0019, CVE-2016-0020	KB 3124901	no.	Severity:Important Exploitability: 1,2,1,1,2,1	Critical	Critical
MS16-008	Security Update for Windows Kernel to Address Elevation of Privilege (Replaces MS15-111, MS15-122, MS15-115 )
MS16-008	Vista or newer and 2008 or newer CVE-2016-0006, CVE-2016-0007	KB 3124605	no.	Severity:Important Exploitability: 1,1	Important	Important
MS16-010	Security Update in Microsoft Exchange Server to Address Spoofing (Replaces MS15-103 )
MS16-010	Microsoft Exchange Server CVE-2016-0029, CVE-2016-0030, CVE-2016-0031, CVE-2016-0032	KB 3124557	no.	Severity:Important Exploitability: 2,1,2,1	Important	Important

We will update issues on this page for about a week or so as they evolve.
We appreciate updates
US based customers can call Microsoft for free patch related support on 1-866-PCSAFETY

(*): ISC rating

We use 4 levels:
- PATCH NOW: Typically used where we see immediate danger of exploitation. Typical environments will want to deploy these patches ASAP. Workarounds a\ re typically not accepted by users or are not possible. This rating is often used when typical deployments make it vulnerable and exploits are being used or easy to obtain or make.
- Critical: Anything that needs little to become "interesting" for the dark side. Best approach is to test and deploy ASAP. Workarounds can give more tim\ e to test.
- Important: Things where more testing and other measures can help.
- Less Urt practices for servers such as not using outlook, MSIE, word etc. to do traditional office or leisure work.
- The rating is not a risk analysis as such. It is a rating of importance of the vulnerability and the perceived or even predicted threatatches.

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Alex Stanford - GIAC GWEB & GSEC,
Research Operations Manager,
SANS Internet Storm Center
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Alex Stanford

136 Posts

Jan 12th 2016

You are showing MS16-007 as Critical but Microsoft only rates it as Important - is there a reason for that?

Thanks,
patermann

patermann

35 Posts

Alas! There it be again! (On my DL side) Push to 10!

Update for Windows 7 (KB2952664)

Download size: 4.0 MB

You may need to restart your computer for this update to take effect.

Update type: Recommended

Install this update to resolve issues in Windows. For a complete listing of the issues that are included in this update, see the associated Microsoft Knowledge Base article for more information. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer.

More information:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2952664

Help and Support:
http://support.microsoft.com

ICI2I

63 Posts

I would assume because an exploit is available. See: https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39232/

PhilBAR

24 Posts