February 13, 2018 - KB4074594 (Monthly Rollup)
Applies to: Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard
Improvements and fixes
This security update includes improvements and fixes that were a part of update KB4057401 (released January 17, 2018) and addresses the following issues:
For more information about the resolved security vulnerabilities, see the Security Update Guide.
- Addresses a script-related issue that caused Internet Explorer to stop working in some cases.
- Addresses issue with editing input fields in some applications in Internet Explorer.
- Addresses issue with launching a new page in Internet Explorer.
- Addresses issue where after installing KB4056895 or KB4056898 on an SMB server, accessing files in directory junction points or volume mount points hosted on the server may fail. The error is “ERROR_INVALID_REPARSE_DATA”. For example, the following symptom may be observed:
Editing some group policies using GPMC or AGPM 4.0 may fail with the error "The data present in the reparse point buffer is invalid. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80071128)".- Addresses issue where when SharePoint writes to a SQL Server filestream share with SMB3 encryption enabled, the write may fail or execute very slowly.
- Security updates to Internet Explorer, Windows Kernel, Common Log File System driver, Windows storage and file systems, Microsoft Windows Search component, and the Windows SMB Server.
Known issues in this update
Symptom
Workaround
Because of an issue that affects some versions of antivirus software, this fix applies only to computers on which the antivirus ISV updated the ALLOW REGKEY.
Contact your antivirus manufacturer to verify that their software is compatible and that they have set the following REGKEY on the computer:
Key="HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE"Subkey="SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\QualityCompat"
Value Name="cadca5fe-87d3-4b96-b7fb-a231484277cc"
Type="REG_DWORD”
Data="0x00000000”
How to get this update
This update will be downloaded and installed automatically from Windows Update. To get the standalone package for this update, go to the Microsoft Update Catalog website.
File information
For a list of the files that are provided in this update, download the file information for update 4074594.
Source: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4074594
Direct download links for KB4056895 MSU file from Microsoft Update Catalog:
Download KB4056895 MSU for Windows 8.1 32-bit (x86) - 171.5 MB Download KB4056895 MSU for Windows 8.1 64-bit (x64) - 310.8 MB
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