Weekly Patch and Update Summary for Week of February 19, 2016

By Taylor Sakuda on February 19, 2016

For all patches and updates listed below please use the appropriate updating methods for your system. It is advised that you patch and update your system as soon and possible.

There were many security patches this week from Microsoft due to the recent discovery of vulnerabilities found on their operating systems. For more information please see Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for February 2016.

Below is a list of patches:

  • MS16-009: Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (3134220)
  • MS16-011: Cumulative Security Update for Microsoft Edge (3134225)
  • MS16-012: Security Update for Microsoft Windows PDF Library to Address Remote Code Execution (3138938)
  • MS16-013: Security Update for Windows Journal to Address Remote Code Execution (3134811)
  • MS16-014: Security Update for Microsoft Windows to Address Remote Code Execution (3134228)
  • MS16-015: Security Update for Microsoft Office to Address Remote Code Execution (3134226)
  • MS16-016: Security Update for WebDAV to Address Elevation of Privilege (3136041)
  • MS16-017: Security Update for Remote Desktop Display Driver to Address Elevation of Privilege (3134700)
  • MS16-018: Security Update for Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers to Address Elevation of Privilege (3136082)
  • MS16-019: Security Update for .NET Framework to Address Denial of Service (3137893)
  • MS16-020: Security Update for Active Directory Federation Services to Address Denial of Service (3134222)
  • MS16-021: Security Update for NPS RADIUS Server to Address Denial of Service (3133043)
  • MS16-022: Security Update for Adobe Flash Player (3135782)

Canonical also released many security patches for their operating system Ubuntu. For more information please see Ubuntu security notices.

Below is a list of patches:

Redhat has released a security patch for CVE-2015-2747.  For more information please see glibc stack-based buffer overflow in getaddrinfo.

Adobe released a security update for all platforms. For more information please see Adobe Security Bulletin.