Welcome to the March 2015 Microsoft Patch Day overview. The guide provides you with information about all security bulletins that the company released this month.
Besides information about each bulletin and links to Microsoft support pages, you find information about affected products as well in this guide.
The number of bulletins that apply to each Microsoft operating system and software product are provided.
Below that you find the list of security advisories that Microsoft released since February and the list of non-security updates.
Executive Summary
Operating System Distribution
All client operating systems with the exception of Windows Vista share the same vulnerabilities and severity ratings. Vista is the only client system not affected by MS15-015.
Windows Server 2008 R2 and newer versions of Windows Server share the same vulnerability distribution while Windows Server 2008 and 2003 are not affected by MS15-015 either.
Other Microsoft Products
Security Bulletins
The bulletins MS15-022, MS15-025 and MS15-031 are listed with known issues. Check out the support pages 3038999, 3038680 and 3046049 for additional information.
Security Advisory
Non-security related updates
How to download and install the March 2015 security updates
All security updates are already available via Windows Update. If you have enabled the Freak Attack workaround that Microsoft suggested, you may need to disable the Group Policy setting before you can do so as you may get an unknown Windows Update error otherwise.
Here is how you do that:
Updates are also available on Microsoft's Download Center, the monthly security ISO images that the company releases, or third-party tools like WSUS.
Additional information
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Martin, this is a good summary–lots of useful content…thanks!
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Wow! I have 37 updates in WU, 1165.2 Gb!
That’s a lot. Which system are you running?
I got 33 in Win 8.1. I installed others yesterday so these weren’t old ones. I got 4 in Win 10.
Almost all recent ones got installed fine. Problem is with 17 from previous three month that always fail(Mostly Office stuff but one huge 800Mb Windows update). I used every trick in a book just to ram them through, but I guess it is not going to happen.
Weird that Neowin forgot to cover the Patch Tuesday for all other currently supported versions of Windows, as well as what patches are related to Microsoft’s fixing of the FREAK vulnerability.
Win 7 Pro 64bit… First time I’ve ever seen monthly Windows Updates not include Malicious Software Removal Tool (which I always decline anyway for privacy reasons)…
Anyone else get it/not get it, or know what the story is with MSRT?
Yes I noticed that to. And till up this moment there is no change in that situation.
Maybe anybody can explain why this mount there is no Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool (x86 and x64 version) 5.22 (on 2015-03-10)
I got that on Monday rather than Tuesday.
Malicious Software Removal Too for March was actually release several days ago [before patch Tuesday]
Hi Martin
Thanks for the tip re policy editor . I was getting an error from windows update not able to connect. I followed your tip but still but needed to reboot to connect to update .Now downloading 44 updates.Should I renable the ssl fix afterwards ? Winn 8.1
Regards
John
John Microsoft fixed the issue in one of the bulletins. I’d check the Freak Attack client detection page afterwards to make sure that it is fixed though.
Thanks Martin
All updates installed ok. Freak test ok .
As an aside I have disable witelisted addblock for your website but I still see no adds .I use firefox portable
KB3033929… Waiting a fix
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/a08ad884-6b05-4632-8f28-2568eb97b636/update-kb3033929-fails-with-error-code-80004005?forum=w7itprosecurity
I had 41 updates consisting of Windows 8.1 updates and Office 2010. Seriously I have a modestly fast computer so it didn’t take that long to install the updates. However I can imagine users tearing out their hair with those slow new barebone Windows 8.1 tablets.
My laptop as updated and I got 54 updates for office and windows 8.1 and crash.
53 updates 1,257.0 Mb