Microsoft security update for CVE-2016-7258 — Windows
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products8
- 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
- Windows Server 2016
- Windows Server 2016 (Server Core installation)
✅ 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-2016-7258
- EchelonGraph score
- 5.5 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 and Windows Server 2016 mishandles page-fault system calls, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from arbitrary processes via a crafted application, aka "Windows Kernel Memory Address Information Disclosure Vulnerability."
Published by Microsoft Corporation, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2016-7258, 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).