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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">[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)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">[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)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">[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)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">[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)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">[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)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">[Major] 4073119: Disable mitigations to help protect against speculative execution side-channel vulnerabilities - Windows 7 / Windows 8.1 / Windows 10 (ID:
407311903)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">[Major] MS18-OCT: Security update for elevation of privilege vulnerability - Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 - KB4463110 (Superseded) (ID: 446311001)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Reason for Update:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Removed enablement of the latest speculative execution side-channel vulnerabilities mitigation settings from the existing enable mitigation fixlets, and new fixlets
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Actions to Take:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Published site version:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Patches for Windows, version 3258<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Application Engineering Team<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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