[BESAdmin-Announcements] Content Modification: Patches for Windows

[Announcements for BES Administrators]

Content in the Patches for Windows site has been modified.


New:

[Major] 4073119: Enable mitigations to help protect against CVE 2018-3639 (Speculative Store Bypass), CVE-2017-5715 (Spectre Variant 2), and CVE-2017-5754 (Meltdown)  - Windows 7 / Windows 8.1 / Windows 10          (ID: 407311905)
[Major] 4072698: Enable mitigations to help protect against CVE 2018-3639 (Speculative Store Bypass), CVE-2017-5715 (Spectre Variant 2), and CVE-2017-5754 (Meltdown)  - Windows Server 2008 / Windows Server 2008 R2 / Windows Server 2012 / Windows Server 2012 R2 /          (ID: 407269805)

Modified:

[Major] 4073119: Enable mitigations to help protect against speculative execution side-channel vulnerabilities CVE-2017-5715 (Spectre Variant 2) and CVE-2017-5754 (Meltdown) - Windows 7 / Windows 8.1 / Windows 10 (ID: 407311901)
[Major] 4072698: Enable mitigations to help protect against speculative execution side-channel vulnerabilities CVE-2017-5715 (Spectre Variant 2) and CVE-2017-5754 (Meltdown) - Windows Server 2008 / Windows Server 2008 R2 / Windows Server 2012 / Windows Server 201    (ID: 407269801)
[Major] 4072698: Disable mitigations to help protect against speculative execution side-channel vulnerabilities - Windows Server 2008 / Windows Server 2008 R2 / Windows Server 2012 / Windows Server 2012 R2 / Windows 2016        (ID: 407269803)
[Major] 4073119: Disable mitigations to help protect against speculative execution side-channel vulnerabilities - Windows 7 / Windows 8.1 / Windows 10        (ID: 407311903)

Superseded:

[Major] MS18-OCT: Security update for elevation of privilege vulnerability - Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 - KB4463110 (Superseded)     (ID: 446311001)


Reason for Update:
Removed enablement of the latest speculative execution side-channel vulnerabilities mitigation settings from the existing enable mitigation fixlets, and new fixlets were created to enable these settings in order to improve usability.

Actions to Take:
None

Published site version:
Patches for Windows, version 3258

Additional links:
None

Application Engineering Team
BigFix

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