Severity Rating: Important
Revision Note: V1.0 (December 13, 2016): Bulletin published.
Summary: The security update addresses the vulnerability by helping to ensure the kernel API correctly enforces access controls applied to this information. This security update resolves a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. An information disclosure vulnerability exists when the Windows Kernel improperly handles objects in memory.

Severity Rating: Critical
Revision Note: V1.0 (December 13, 2016): Bulletin published.
Summary: This security update resolves a vulnerability in Windows Uniscribe. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user visits a specially crafted website or opens a specially crafted document. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights. This security update addresses the vulnerabilities by correcting how the Windows Uniscribe handles objects in the memory.

Revision Note: V1.0 (December 13, 2016): Bulletin published
Summary: This bulletin summary lists security bulletins released for December 2016.

Severity Rating: Critical
Revision Note: V1.0 (December 13, 2016): Bulletin published.
Summary: This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Edge. The most severe of the vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted webpage using Microsoft Edge. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerabilities could gain the same user rights as the current user. Customers whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users with administrative user rights.

Severity Rating: Critical
Revision Note: V1.0 (December 13, 2016): Bulletin published.
Summary: This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows. The most severe of the vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user either visits a specially crafted website or opens a specially crafted document. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.

Severity Rating: Critical
Revision Note: V1.0 (December 13, 2016): Bulletin published.
Summary: This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. The most severe of the vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted webpage using Internet Explorer. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerabilities could gain the same user rights as the current user. If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker could take control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.

Severity Rating: Important
Revision Note: V1.0 (December 13, 2016): Bulletin published.
Summary: This security update resolves a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow elevation of privilege if a locally-authenticated attacker runs a specially crafted application on a targeted system. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could violate virtual trust levels (VTL).

Severity Rating: Important
Revision Note: V1.0 (December 13, 2016): Bulletin published
Summary: This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows. 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.

Severity Rating: Important
Revision Note: V1.0 (December 13, 2016): Bulletin published.
Summary: This security update resolves a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow Information Disclosure when the Windows Common Log File System (CLFS) driver improperly handles objects in memory. In a local attack scenario, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability by running a specially crafted application to bypass security measures on the affected system allowing further exploitation.

Severity Rating: Critical
Revision Note: V1.0 (December 13, 2016): Bulletin published.
Summary: This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player when installed on all supported editions of Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows RT 8.1, and Windows 10.