CVE-2018-8653 | Severe Security Vulnerability fixes available

A severe vulnerability has been discovered by Microsoft: A remote code execution vulnerability corrupts memory in such a way that an attacker could successfully exploit the vulnerability and gain the user rights same as the current user. The Research team of Microsoft has released Cumulative updates CVE # 2018-8653, which needs to be deployed immediately. Cumulative and Delta Updates are also released on Patch Tuesday. This time, in the month of December they have released Cumulative and Delta updates:

1. KB4483187

2. KB4483228

3. KB4483229

4. KB4483230

5. KB4483232

6. KB4483234

7. KB4483235

To know more about these Cumulative updates, please refer to this Microsoft KB document - https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-us/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2018-8653

Note: A Delta package for this update will not be available. Customers using Delta package updates need to apply this Full Update #CVE-2018-8653. Customers who do not apply the Full update will experience an update failure when installing the January Delta Update.

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