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CVE Number Vulnerability Product Severity Date
MS16-078 Security Update for Windows Diagnostic Hub (3165479) Windows 10 Important 15-06-2016

Technical Information

Brief overview of the risk:
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Service fails to properly sanitize input, leading to an unsecure library loading behavior.

Detailed Information on the risk:

To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would have to log on to an affected system and run a specially crafted application. The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how the Windows Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Service sanitizes input, to help preclude unintended elevated system privileges.

Further information on this exploit is available at : MS16-078

Windows 10 for 32-bit Systems
Windows 10 for 64-bit Systems
Windows 10 Version 1511 for 32-bit Systems
Windows 10 Version 1511 for x64-based Systems

Affected Software

Windows 10 for 32-bit Systems
Windows 10 for 64-bit Systems
Windows 10 Version 1511 for 32-bit Systems
Windows 10 Version 1511 for x64-based Systems