MS16-061 - K7 Labs

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CVE Number	Vulnerability	Product	Severity	Date
MS16-061	Security Update for Microsoft RPC (3155520)	Windows Vista	Important	11-05-2016

Technical Information

Brief overview of the risk:
The vulnerability could allow elevation of privilege if an unauthenticated attacker makes malformed Remote Procedure Call (RPC) requests to an affected host.

Detailed Information on the risk:

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that Microsoft Windows handles specially crafted Remote Procedure Call (RPC) requests. A privilege elevation can occur when the RPC Network Data Representation (NDR) Engine improperly frees memory.An unauthenticated attacker could exploit the vulnerability by making malformed RPC requests to an affected host. The update addresses this vulnerability by modifying the way that Microsoft Windows handles RPC messages.

Further information on this exploit is available at : MS16-061

Windows Vista Service Pack 2
Windows Vista x64 Edition Service Pack 2
Windows Server 2008 for 32-bit Systems Service Pack 2
Windows Server 2008 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 2
Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems Service Pack 2
Windows 7 for 32-bit Systems Service Pack 1
Windows 7 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1
Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1
Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanium-based Systems Service Pack 1
Windows 8.1 for 32-bit Systems
Windows 8.1 for x64-based Systems
Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows RT 8.1
Windows 10 for 32-bit Systems
Windows 10 for x64-based Systems
Windows 10 Version 1511 for 32-bit Systems
Windows 10 Version 1511 for x64-based Systems
Windows Server 2008 for 32-bit Systems Service Pack 2 (Server Core installation)
Windows Server 2008 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 2 (Server Core installation)
Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1(Server Core installation)

Technical Information

Affected Software