CVE-2016-3201High
Windows PDF Information Disclosure Vulnerability
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
An information disclosure vulnerability exists in Microsoft Windows when a user opens a specially crafted PDF file. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could read memory in the context of the current user. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would have to trick the user into opening the PDF file. The update addresses the vulnerability by modifying how Windows parses PDF files.
🎯 Affected products12
- Microsoft Edge (EdgeHTML-based) on Windows 10 Version 1511 for 32-bit Systems
- Microsoft Edge (EdgeHTML-based) on Windows 10 Version 1511 for x64-based Systems
- Microsoft Edge (EdgeHTML-based) on Windows 10 for 32-bit Systems
- Microsoft Edge (EdgeHTML-based) on Windows 10 for x64-based Systems
- Windows 10 Version 1511 for 32-bit Systems
- Windows 10 Version 1511 for x64-based Systems
- Windows 10 for 32-bit Systems
- Windows 10 for x64-based Systems
- Windows 8.1 for 32-bit systems
- Windows 8.1 for x64-based systems
- Windows Server 2012
- Windows Server 2012 R2
✅ Remediation
KB3163017 (Security Update) KB3163018 (Security Update) KB3157569 (Security Update)
🔗 References (6)
- advisoryhttps://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2016-3201
- patchhttps://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=KB3163017
- patchhttps://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=KB3163018
- patchhttps://www.microsoft.com/download/details.aspx?familyid=833c55d2-de1e-44f7-adfe-8d5560df78a8
- patchhttps://www.microsoft.com/download/details.aspx?familyid=366d7855-18d7-4dcd-bc42-dcc60f8240a1
- patchhttps://www.microsoft.com/download/details.aspx?familyid=19cd17e3-c460-4836-ae12-e953dfd14ef6