Microsoft Windows Patchday Februar 2018

Es ist wieder soweit – Microsoft Patchday im Februar 2018 – Microsoft verteilt insgesamt Sicherheitsupdates für ca. 50 Schwachstellen in Windows und Office. Davon hat Microsoft 14 Lücken als kritisch eingestuft, von denen 12 den Browser Edge und Internet Explorer, betreffen. Ebenso gibt es ein Update für den Flash Player und dem Removal Tool 5.57.

Bekannte Probleme

Probleme kann das Update KB4058258 in Windows 10 1709 verursachen. Dieses zeigt den Fehler 0x8007070643, dass es nicht installiert werden konnte, ist es aber. Microsoft ist am Thema bei und will schnellst möglich Abhilfe schaffen. Außerdem müssen alle Virenscanner, wie bei Meltdown und Spectre, den Anforderungen von Microsoft entsprechen. Bei einigen Benutzer gab es zudem Probleme bei der Anmeldung an einigen Webseiten im Edge mit Anmeldedaten von Drittanbietern.

Microsoft Security Updates February 2018

Executive Summary

• Microsoft released updates for all supported client and server versions of Windows.
• Security updates are available for Microsoft Office, Adobe Flash, Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer as well.
• All Windows systems are affected by one critical vulnerability.

Operating System Distribution

• Windows 7: 15 vulnerabilities of which 1 is rated critical and 14 are rated important
• Windows 8.1: 12 vulnerabilities of which 1 is rated critical, 10 are important, and 1 is moderate
• Windows 10 version 1607: 17 vulnerabilities of which 1 is rated critical and 16 are rated important
• Windows 10 version 1703: 18 vulnerabilities of which 1 is rated critical and 17 are rated important
• Windows 10 version 1709: 19 vulnerabilities of which 1 is rated critical and 18 are rated important

Windows Server products

• Windows Server 2008: 11 vulnerabilities of which 1 is rated critical and 10 are rated important
• Windows Server 2008 R2: 14 vulnerabilities of which 1 is rated critical and 13 are rated important
• Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2: 12 vulnerabilities of which 1 is rated critical 11 are rated important
• Windows Server 2016: 17 vulnerabilities of which 1 is rated critical and 16 are rated important

Other Microsoft Products

• Internet Explorer 11: 2 vulnerabilities, 1 critical, 1 important
• Microsoft Edge: 14 vulnerabilities, 11 critical, 2 important, 1 moderate

Security Updates

KB4074588 – Cumulative Update for Windwos 10 version 1709 to build 16299.248.

• Addresses issue where child accounts are able to access InPrivate mode on ARM devices even though their browsing and search history is sent to their parents. This occurs only on Microsoft accounts belonging to children that are managed using the Microsoft Family service and for which parents have enabled activity reporting. This applies to Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer.
• Addresses issue with docking and undocking Internet Explorer windows.
• Addresses issue in Internet Explorer where pressing the delete key inserted a new line in input boxes in an application.
• Addresses issue in Internet Explorer where selected elements wouldn’t update under certain circumstances.
• Addresses issue where some users may have experienced issues logging into some websites when using third-party account credentials in Microsoft Edge.
• Updates time zone information.
• Addresses issue with browser Compatibility View settings that occurs during updates.
• Addresses issue where, in certain hardware configurations, the frame rates of DirectX Games were unintentionally limited to a factor of the display’s vertical synchronization.
• Addresses issue that causes delays when switching keyboard languages using Alt+Shift.
• Addresses issue where surround sound audio endpoints reverted to stereo after restarting.
  Improves and reduces conditions where certain Bluetooth keyboards drop keys during reconnection scenarios.
• Corrects mouse delays for devices that incorrectly report the battery level status.
• Addresses issue where MMC application snap-ins—such as Services, Local Policy Admin, and Printer Management—fail to run when Windows Defender Application Control (Device Guard) is turned on. The error is “Object doesn’t support this property or method”.
• Prevents use of the Pre-production Onesettings endpoint for Windows Setup when test signing is enabled.
• Addresses issue where installations of Windows Server, version 1709 are not automatically activated using the Automated Virtual Machine Activation (AVMA) feature on Hyper-V hosts that have been activated.
• Addresses issue with the Auto-register Inbox templates feature for UEV where the Scheduled Task didn’t have the proper trigger.
• Addresses issue where the App-V client didn’t read the policy for SyncOnBatteriesEnabled when the policy was set using a Group Policy Object (GPO).
• Addresses issue where the Supported On field for the Enable App-V Client policy is blank in the Group Policy editor.
• Addresses issue where the user’s hive data in the registry is not maintained correctly when some App-V packages belong to the connection group.
• Provides additional logging for administrators to take action, such as picking a proper configuration for their App-V package, when there are multiple configuration files for a single package.
• Addresses issue with App-V packages that aren’t compatible with registry virtualization using kernel containers. To address the issue, we changed the registry virtualization to use the earlier (non-container) method by default. Customers who would like to use the new (kernel container) method for registry virtualization can still switch to it by setting the following registry value to 1:
  Path: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\AppV\Client\Compatibility
  Setting: ContainerRegistryEnabled
  DataType: DWORD
• Security updates to Microsoft Scripting Engine, Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Windows Search component, Windows Kernel, Windows Authentication, Device Guard, Common Log File System driver, and the Windows storage and file systems.

KB4074591 – Cumulative Update for Windwos 10 Version 1511 to build 10586.1417

• Updates time zone information.
• Addresses issue that causes services.exe to stop working after applying the “Obtain an impersonation token for another user in the same session” privilege to Windows Server 2012 R2 computers. These computers then enter a restart loop. The system may report the SceCli event ID 1202 with error 0x4b8. It may also report the Application Error event ID 1000 with the faulting module name scesrv.dll and the exception code 0xc0000409. This privilege was first introduced in Windows Server 2016.
• Addresses issue where MMC application snap-ins—such as Services, Local Policy Admin, and Printer Management—fail to run when Windows Defender Application Control (Device Guard) is turned on. The error is “Object doesn’t support this property or method.”
• Addresses issue with URL redirects in Internet Explorer.
• Addresses issue where some users may have experienced issues logging into some websites when using third-party account credentials in Microsoft Edge.
• Addresses issue with browser Compatibility View settings that occur during updates.
• Security updates to Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Windows Search component, Windows Kernel, Device Guard, Windows storage and file systems, Common Log File System driver, and the Microsoft Scripting Engine.

KB4074590 – Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1607 to build 14393.2068

• Addresses issue with fragment identifier contained in links opened using the Enterprise Mode Site List to redirect from Microsoft Edge to Internet Explorer.
• Addresses issue with rendering graphics elements with Internet Explorer.
• Addresses a script-related issue that caused Internet Explorer to stop working in some cases.
• Addresses issue in Internet Explorer where pressing the Delete key inserted a new line in input boxes in an application.
• Addresses issue where some users may have experienced issues logging into some websites when using third-party account credentials in Microsoft Edge.
• Addresses issue with browser Compatibility View settings that occured during updates.
• Updates time zone information.
• Addresses issue where telemetry data couldn’t be uploaded using UTC because of networking environments that prevent access to the necessary CRL servers.
• Addresses issue where MMC application snap-ins—such as Services, Local Policy Admin, and Printer Management—fail to run when Windows Defender Application Control (Device Guard) is turned on. The error is “Object doesn’t support this property or method.”
• Addresses issue where a failover in MPIO while throttling input and output requests may cause all available paths to fail.
• Addresses issue where the application pool CPU throttles when running IIS.
• Updates Microsoft HoloLens CPU Microcode to address vulnerability CVE-2017-5715 – Branch target injection. Installing this KB for HoloLens applies all relevant OS and Microcode updates. See Advisory 180002 for more details.
• Addresses issue where, after installing KB4057142 or KB4056890 on an SMB server, accessing files in directory junction points or volume mount points hosted on the server may fail. The error is “ERROR_INVALID_REPARSE_DATA”. For example, this symptom may be observed:
• Editing some group policies using GPMC or AGPM 4.0 may fail with the error “The data present in the reparse point buffer is invalid. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80071128)”.
  Security updates to Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer, Adobe Flash Player, Microsoft Windows Search Component, Windows Kernel, Device Guard, Common Log File System Driver, and Windows storage and file systems.

KB4074592 – Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1703 to build 15063.909.

• Addresses issue with a fragment identifier contained in links opened using the Enterprise Mode Site List to redirect from Microsoft Edge to Internet Explorer.
• Addresses issue with scrolling through customer applications in Microsoft Edge.
• Addresses a script-related issue that caused Internet Explorer to stop working in some cases.
• Addresses issue with launching files using linked shortcuts in Internet Explorer.
• Addresses issue with rendering graphics elements in Internet Explorer.
• Addresses issue in Internet Explorer where pressing the Delete key inserted a new line in input boxes in an application.
• Addresses issue where some users may have experienced issues logging into some websites when using third-party account credentials in Microsoft Edge.
• Updates time zone information.
• Addresses issue where telemetry data couldn’t be uploaded using UTC because of networking environments that prevent access to the necessary CRL servers.
• Addresses issue where the certutil.exe -MergePfx feature couldn’t produce a merged EPF file for multiple V1 certificates.
• Addresses issue where MMC application snap-ins—such as Services, Local Policy Admin, and Printer Management—fail to run when Windows Defender Application Control (Device Guard) is turned on. The error is “Object doesn’t support this property or method.”
• Addresses issue where booting with Unified Write Filter (UWF) turned on may lead to stop error 0xE1 in embedded devices, particularly when using a USB HUB.
• Improves performance of Intel processors that have Hardware P-States (HWP) enabled.
• Addresses issue where customers sometimes see the error message “Something went wrong” after completing the out-of-box experience.
• Security updates to Microsoft Scripting Engine, Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Windows Search component, Windows Kernel, Device Guard, Windows storage and file systems, and the Common Log File System driver.
• KB4074593 – Windows Embedded 8 Standard
• KB4074594 – 2018-02 Security Monthly Quality Rollup for Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2
• KB4074597 – 2018-02 Security Only Quality Update for Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2

All three address the following security issues:

• Security updates to Windows Graphics, Windows Kernel, Common Log File System driver, Microsoft Windows Search component, and Windows storage and file systems.
• KB4056898 – 2018-02 Security Monthly Quality Rollup for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
• KB4074587 – 2018-02 Security Only Quality Update for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2

Both address the following security issues:

• Security updates to Windows Graphics, Windows Kernel, Common Log File System driver, Microsoft Windows Search component, and Windows storage and file systems.
• KB4074736 – Cumulative security update for Internet Explorer: February 13, 2018
• KB4034044 – Security Update for Windows Server 2008 and Windows XP Embedded that fixes an information disclosure vulnerability in VBScript.
• KB4057893 – Security Update for Windows XP Embedded SP3 for x86-based Systems —
• KB4058165 – 2018-02 Security Update for Windows Server 2008 — addresses a security issue in Windows Kernel that could be abused for information disclosure attacks.
• KB4073079 – 2018-02 Security Update for Windows Server 2008 — addresses an elevation of privileges vulnerability in the Windows Common Log File System driver.
• KB4073080 – 2018-02 Security Update for Windows Server 2008 — Fixes an information disclosure vulnerability and an elevation of privilege vulnerability in Windows kernel.
• KB4074589 – 2018-02 Security Only Quality Update for Windows Embedded 8 Standard and Windows Server 2012
• KB4074595 – 2018-02 Security Update for Adobe Flash Player for Windows 10 Version 1709, Windows 10 Version 1703, Windows 10 Version 1607, Windows 10 Version 1511, Windows 10 Version 1507, and Windows 10
• KB4074603 – 2018-02 Security Update for Windows Server 2008 and Windows XP Embedded
• KB4074836 – 2018-02 Security Update for Windows Server 2008 and Windows XP Embedded
• KB4074851 – 2018-02 Security Update for Windows Server 2008
• KB4074852 – 2018-02 Security Update for Windows XP Embedded SP3 for x86-based Systems

Known Issues

• Windows Update History reports that KB4054517 failed to install because of error 0x80070643. – Workaround: run a manual check for updates to make sure no further updates are available.
• Because of an issue that affects some versions of antivirus software, this fix applies only to computers on which the antivirus ISV updated the ALLOW REGKEY.

Security advisories and updates

ADV180004 – February 2018 Adobe Flash Security Update

Non-security related updates

• KB4019276 – Update for WES09 and POSReady 2009
• KB4056446 – Update for Windows Server 2008
• KB4076492 – 2018-02 Quality Rollup for .NET Framework 3.5.1 on Windows Embedded Standard 7, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 R2
• KB4076493 – 2018-02 Quality Rollup for .NET Framework 3.5, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, 4.7.1 on Windows Embedded 8 Standard and Windows Server 2012
• KB4076494 – 2018-02 Quality Rollup for .NET Framework 3.5, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, 4.7.1 on Windows 8.1, Windows RT 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 R2
• KB4076495 -2018-02 Quality Rollup for .NET Framework 2.0, 3.0, 4.5.2, 4.6 on Windows Server 2008
• KB4077944 – 2018-02 Dynamic Update for Windows 10 Version 1709
• KB4077962 – 2018-02 Dynamic Update for Windows 10 Version 1703
• KB4078408 – 2018-02 Dynamic Update for Windows 10 Version 1709
• KB4087256 – 2018-02 Update for Windows 10 Version 1709
• KB4058258 – Windows 10 Version 1709 update to build 16299.214
• KB890830 – Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool – February 2018

A big non-security update with improvements and fixes.

• KB4073291 – Windows 10 Version 1709 update to build 16299.201
• Adds additional lprotections for 32-bit versions of Windows 10 version 1709. Also addresses issue originally patched in KB4056892. Has known issues
• KB4057144 – Windows 10 Version 1703 update to build 15063.877
• Fixes lots of issues including unbootable state issues for some AMD systems, printing PDF issues in Microsoft Edge, or Windows Defender security issues.
• KB4057142 – Windows 10 Version 1607 update to build 14393.2034
• The update includes quality improvements. Lots of fixes, some match KB4057144.
• KB4075200 – Windows 10 Version 1511 update to build 10586.1358

Non-security update for the November update version of Windows 10. Includes some fixes.

Microsoft Office Updates

Office 2016

• KB4011686 – Fixes remote code execution vulnerabilities in Office 2016.
• KB4011143 – Fixes remote code execution vulnerabilities in Office 2016.

Office 2013

• KB4011690 – Patches vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office that could be exploited for remote code execution.
• KB3172459 – Security Update for Microsoft Office to address remote code execution vulnerabilities.

Office 2010

• KB4011707 – Fixes remote code execution vulnerabilities in Office 2010.
• KB3114874 – Fixes remote code execution vulnerabilities in Office 2010.