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Severity Rating: CriticalRevision Note: V2.0 (April 11, 2017): Bulletin revised to announce the release of a new Internet Explorer cumulative update (4014661) for CVE-2016-0162. The update adds to the original release to comprehensively address CVE-2016-0162. Microsoft recommends that customers running the affected software install the security update to be fully protected from the vulnerability described in this bulletin. See Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 4014661 for more information.
Summary: This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. The most severe of the vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted webpage using Internet Explorer. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerabilities could gain the same user rights as the current user. If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker could take control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.