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CVE Number Vulnerability Product Severity Date
MS16-135 Security Update for Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers (3199135) WindowsVistax64EditionServicePack2 Important 09-11-2016

Technical Information

Brief overview of the risk:
This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows. The most severe of the vulnerabilities could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker logs on to an affected system and runs a specially crafted application that could exploit the vulnerabilities and take control of an affected system.

Detailed Information on the risk:

An Information disclosure vulnerability exists in the Windows kernel that could allow an attacker to retrieve information that could lead to a Kernel Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) bypass. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could retrieve the memory address of a kernel object.
To exploit the 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 kernel handles memory addresses.

Further information on this exploit is available at : MS16-135

WindowsVistax64EditionServicePack2
WindowsVistaServicePack2
WindowsServer2016forx64-basedSystems
WindowsServer2012R2(ServerCoreinstallation)
WindowsServer2012andWindowsServer2012R2
WindowsServer2012(ServerCoreinstallation)
WindowsServer2008R2forx64-basedSystemsServicePack1(ServerCoreinstallation)
WindowsServer2008R2forx64-basedSystemsServicePack1
WindowsServer2008forx64-basedSystemsServicePack2(ServerCoreinstallation)
WindowsServer2008forx64-basedSystemsServicePack2
WindowsServer2008forItanium-basedSystemsServicePack2
WindowsServer2008for32-bitSystemsServicePack2(ServerCoreinstallation)
WindowsServer2008for32-bitSystemsServicePack2
WindowsRT8.1[1]
Windows8.1forx64-basedSystems
Windows8.1for32-bitSystems
Windows8.1
Windows7forx64-basedSystemsServicePack1
Windows7for32-bitSystemsServicePack1
Windows10Version1607forx64-basedSystems
Windows10Version1607for32-bitSystems
Windows10Version1511forx64-basedSystems
Windows10Version1511for32-bitSystems
Windows10forx64-basedSystems
Windows10for32-bitSystems

Affected Software

WindowsVistax64EditionServicePack2
WindowsVistaServicePack2
WindowsServer2016forx64-basedSystems
WindowsServer2012R2(ServerCoreinstallation)
WindowsServer2012andWindowsServer2012R2
WindowsServer2012(ServerCoreinstallation)
WindowsServer2008R2forx64-basedSystemsServicePack1(ServerCoreinstallation)
WindowsServer2008R2forx64-basedSystemsServicePack1
WindowsServer2008forx64-basedSystemsServicePack2(ServerCoreinstallation)
WindowsServer2008forx64-basedSystemsServicePack2
WindowsServer2008forItanium-basedSystemsServicePack2
WindowsServer2008for32-bitSystemsServicePack2(ServerCoreinstallation)
WindowsServer2008for32-bitSystemsServicePack2
WindowsRT8.1[1]
Windows8.1forx64-basedSystems
Windows8.1for32-bitSystems
Windows8.1
Windows7forx64-basedSystemsServicePack1
Windows7for32-bitSystemsServicePack1
Windows10Version1607forx64-basedSystems
Windows10Version1607for32-bitSystems
Windows10Version1511forx64-basedSystems
Windows10Version1511for32-bitSystems
Windows10forx64-basedSystems
Windows10for32-bitSystems