Microsoft security update for CVE-2016-0079 — Windows 10
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products6
- Windows 10 Version 1511 for 32-bit Systems
- Windows 10 Version 1511 for x64-based Systems
- Windows 10 Version 1607 for 32-bit Systems
- Windows 10 Version 1607 for x64-based Systems
- Windows 10 for 32-bit Systems
- Windows 10 for x64-based Systems
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 3 KB articles
3 rows: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2016-0079
- EchelonGraph score
- 5.0 MEDIUM
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
The kernel in Microsoft Windows 10 Gold, 1511, and 1607 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application that makes an API call to access sensitive information in the registry, aka "Windows Kernel Local Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability."
Published by Microsoft Corporation, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2016-0079, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).