This August Patch Tuesday from Microsoft brings a relatively light series of updates, with five rated as critical and the remaining four rated as important.

Aside from the relatively few updates from Microsoft, there are no zero-day or publicly disclosed vulnerabilities this month. Microsoft has also chosen to update a number of relatively minor components this month with the exception of MS16-098 (another kernel update). Later this month, we will add some additional in-depth analysis to this patch update cycle including potential patch deployment clashes with common applications and a risk assessment for deployment desktop and server updates.

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