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November 2015 Microsoft Patch Tuesday

Overview of the November 2015 Microsoft patches and their status.

# Affected Contra Indications - KB Known Exploits Microsoft rating(**) ISC rating(*)
clients servers
MS15-112 Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (Replaces MS15-106 )
Internet Explorer
CVE-2015-2427, CVE-2015-6064, CVE-2015-6065, CVE-2015-6066, CVE-2015-6067,
CVE-2015-6068, CVE-2015-6069, CVE-2015-6070, CVE-2015-6071, CVE-2015-6072,
CVE-2015-6073, CVE-2015-6074, CVE-2015-6075, CVE-2015-6076, CVE-2015-6077,
CVE-2015-6078, CVE-2015-6079, CVE-2015-6080, CVE-2015-6081, CVE-2015-6082,
CVE-2015-6084, CVE-2015-6085, CVE-2015-6086, CVE-2015-6087, CVE-2015-6088,
CVE-2015-6089		 KB 3104517 no. Severity:Critical
Exploitability: 1 and higher		 Critical Critical
MS15-113 Cumulative Security Update for Microsoft Edge (Replaces MS15-107 )
Microsoft Edge
CVE-2015-6064, CVE-2015-6073, CVE-2015-6078, CVE-2015-6088		 KB 3104519 no. Severity:Critical
Exploitability: 1,1,1,2		 Critical Critical
MS15-114 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Windows Journal (Replaces MS15-098 )
Microsoft Journal
CVE-2015-6088		 KB 3100213 no. Severity:Critical
Exploitability: 3		 Critical Important
MS15-115 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in OpenType (Replaces MS15-097 MS15-111 MS15-073 )
OpenType Fonts
CVE-2015-6100, CVE-2015-6101, CVE-2015-6102, CVE-2015-6103
CVE-2015-6014, CVE-2015-6109, CVE-2015-6113		 KB 3105864 no. Severity:Critical
Exploitability: 1-2		 Critical Important
MS15-116 Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilties in Microsoft Office (Replaces MS15-046 MS15-110 MS12-066 MS14-048 MS14-020 MS13-035 MS15-081 MS15-022 )
Office, Office Services and Web Apps, Skype, Lync
CVE-2015-2503, CVE-2015-6038, CVE-2015-6091, CVE-2015-6092
CVE-2015-6093, CVE-2015-6094, CVE-2015-6123		 KB 3104540 no. Severity:Important
Exploitability: 1,1,1,2,1,1,3		 Critical Important
MS15-117 Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability in NDIS
NDIS
CVE-2015-6098		 KB 3101722 no. Severity:Important
Exploitability: 2-4		 Important Important
MS15-118 Elevation of Privilege Vulnerabilities in .Net Framework (Replaces MS14-057 MS11-100 MS14-009 )
.Net Framework
CVE-2015-6096, CVE-2015-6099, CVE-2015-6115		 KB 3104507 no. Severity:Important
Exploitability: 1,2,2		 Important Important
MS15-119 Elevation of Privilege Vulnerabilities in Winsock (Replaces MS14-040 )
Winsock
CVE-2015-2478		 KB 3104521 no. Severity:Important
Exploitability: 2		 Important Important
MS15-120 Denial of Service Vulnerability in IPSec
IPSec
CVE-2015-6111		 KB 3102939 no. Severity:Important
Exploitability: 2-4		 N/A Important
MS15-121 Spoofing Vulnerability in SChannel (Replaces MS15-055 MS15-076 )
SChannel
CVE-2015-6112		 KB 3081320 no. Severity:Important
Exploitability: 2		 Important Important
MS15-122 Security Feature Bypass in Kerberos (Replaces MS14-068 MS15-076 MS15-052 )
Kerberos
CVE-2015-6095		 KB 3105256 no. Severity:Important
Exploitability: 2		 Important Important
MS15-123 Information Disclosure Vulnerablity in Microsoft Lync and Skype for Business (Replaces MS15-097 )
Skype for Business, Lync
CVE-2015-6061		 KB 3105872 no. Severity:Important
Exploitability: 2		 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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 Johannes

4246 Posts
ISC Handler
Nov 10th 2015
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5 years ago
Adobe Flash and Air has an update out as well, 19.0.0.245. Considering the recent report that flash has provided, so far, been 8 out of 10 exploits used by exploit kits in 2015, you don't want to miss that either.
 R

41 Posts
Quote Nov 11th 2015
5 years ago
Beware of KB3097877. It is causing Outlook 2010 and 2013 to crash on some HTML emails. Removing it resolves this issue. I have personally seen this. I recommend you not install until Microsoft fixes it. A thread talking about it is here: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/482486ba-a378-4dcd-bd21-08ae19760b93/crashes-since-111115-updates-in-both-outlook-2010-and-2013-when-viewing-html-emails?forum=officeitproprevious
 R

41 Posts
Quote Nov 11th 2015
5 years ago
More problems with 3097877, including network logon black screens, detailed here: http://www.infoworld.com/article/3004519/microsoft-windows/kb-3097877crashes-outlook-causes-network-sign-in-black-screens.html?nsdr=true
 WoodyLeonhard

8 Posts
Quote Nov 11th 2015
5 years ago
Confirmed that KB3097877 is crashing Outlook 2010 when viewing specific HTML emails; i.e. JetBlue reservations etc.


Uninstalling KB3097877 resolves the issue.

Unfortunately, the update will be re-installled unless you manually block the specific update or stop windows update services.


Despite widespread reports of problems with this patch, Microsoft has not pulled it from the Windows Update 'site'.

40 minutes in and three transfers later, I am still attempting to reach someone at Microsoft to get KB3097877 pulled from Windows Update so that it does not continue to re-install itself.
 AnAdmin

10 Posts
Quote Nov 11th 2015
5 years ago
Today (Wednesday, 14:38 Pacific), I launched Windows Update, and 28 updates (Office & Windows 7) were found, but KB3097877 was not "tick-marked". So, 27 updates are being downloaded/applied, not 28.
 Anonymous
Quote Nov 11th 2015
5 years ago
We installed updates to our exchange 2013 hybrid server. KB3097877 Causes issues with SMTP starting. After the patch, you are unable to telnet to port 25 on the server or send emails as a relay through it of course. We did find workaround for this, but really its just best to uninstall the patch. We removed and restarted the server and found no further issues after this.
 Xotan

2 Posts
Quote Nov 12th 2015
5 years ago
KB 3097877 has been re-released http://www.infoworld.com/article/3004441/microsoft-windows/microsoft-surreptitiously-reissues-botched-patch-kb-3097877-for-windows-7.html?nsdr=true
 WoodyLeonhard

8 Posts
Quote Nov 12th 2015
5 years ago
It looks like your table is too wide for your layout, at least on my screen (in both the diary and forum).
 Vincent T

14 Posts
Quote Nov 16th 2015
5 years ago

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