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Severity Rating: ImportantRevision Note: V1.2 (October 29, 2015): Bulletin revised to announce a detection change in the 3088195 update for all supported editions of Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows RT, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2, and Windows RT 8.1. The detection change temporarily blocks deployment of the 3088195 update to systems running a specific version of USB Blocker software that is incompatible with the update. For more information, see Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 3088195. Note: This is a detection change only. Customers who have already successfully updated their systems do not need to take any action. Summary: This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows. The more severe of the vulnerabilities could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker logs on to an affected system and runs a specially crafted application. Source: [ more… ]

Revision Note: V2.0 (October 29, 2015): For MS15-106, Bulletin Summary revised to announce the release of a new Windows 10 cumulative update (3105210) to address an additional vulnerability, CVE-2015-6045, and to add this vulnerability to the Exploitability Index. Only customers running Windows 10 systems need to install this new update. Earlier operating systems are either not affected or they received the fix in the original updates of October 13, 2015. See Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 3105210 for more information and the download link.Summary: This bulletin summary lists security bulletins released for October 2015. Source: ms-security

Severity Rating: CriticalRevision Note: V2.0 (October 29, 2015): Bulletin revised to announce the release of a new Windows 10 cumulative update (3105210) to address an additional vulnerability, CVE-2015-6045, which has been added to this bulletin. Only customers running Windows 10 systems need to install this new update. Earlier operating systems are either not affected or have received the fix in the original updates of October 13, 2015. See Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 3105210 for more information and the download link.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 these vulnerabilities could gain the same user rights as the current user. Customers whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system [ more… ]