Release Notes

Windows Embedded Standard Security

Update to Mitigate Meltdown and Spectre

Vulnerability

Release type and definition

This release note contains information about the Windows Embedded Standard security updates to mitigate meltdown and spectre

vulnerabilities on the following operating systems:

• Windows Embedded Standard 7

• Windows Embedded Standard 7P

• Windows Embedded Standard 8

• Windows 10 IoT Enterprise

Speculative execution of meltdown and spectre vulnerabilities can be used to read the memory across a trusted boundary. There are

multiple vectors by which an attacker can trigger the vulnerabilities depending upon your configuration.

This security update is to mitigate the meltdown and spectre vulnerability which prevent attackers from triggering a weakness in the CPU

and access the content stored in memory.

For more information, see knowledge base article Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerabilities at www.dell.com

Priority and recommendations

Urgent: Dell highly recommends applying this update as soon as possible. The update contains changes to improve the reliability and

availability of your Dell system.

What is new in this release

• KB4056897_WES7— This file installs January 2018 security quality update for Windows Embedded Standard 7 on a 32-bit system.

Your system reboots three times during the installation and requires 150 MB of free space. For more information, see KB article no

4056897 at

support.dell.com

• IE11_KB4056568_WES7—This file installs January 2018 cumulative security update for Internet Explorer 11 for Windows Embedded

Standard 7 on a 32-bit system. Your system reboots three times during the installation and requires 140 MB of free space. For more

information, see KB article no 4056568 at

support.microsoft.com

• KB4056897_WES7P—This file installs January 2018 security quality update for Windows Embedded Standard 7 on a 64-bit systems.

Your system reboots three times during the installation and requires 335 MB of free space. For more information, see KB article no

4056897 at support.microsoft.com

• IE11_KB4056568_WES7P—This file installs January 2018 cumulative security update for Internet Explorer 11 for Windows

Embedded Standard 7 on a 64-bit system. Your system reboots three times during the installation and requires 335 MB of free space.

For more information, see KB article no 4056568 at support.microsoft.com

• KB4056899_WE8S—This file installs January 2018 security quality update for Windows Embedded 8 Standard on a 64-bit systems.

Your system reboots three times during the installation and requires 100 MB of free space. For more information, see KB article no

4056899 at

support.microsoft.com

• KB4056893_WIE10—This file installs January 2018 cumulative update for Windows 10 IoT Enterprise version 1507 on a 64-bit

systems. Your system reboots three times during the installation and requires 4.5 GB of free space. For more information, see KB

article no 4056893 at support.microsoft.com

• KB4056890_WIE10_1607—This file installs January 2018 cumulative update for Windows 10 IoT Enterprise version 1607 on a 64-bit

systems. Your system reboots three times during the installation and requires 6 GB of free space. For more information, see KB article

no 4056890 at support.microsoft.com

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