Trend Micro IM Security 1.6x Compatibility with Microsoft Security Updates for Speculative Store Bypass (CVE-2018-3639) and Rogue System Register Read (CVE-2018-3640)

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Last updated: 2025/05/08

Solution ID: KA-0008869

Category: Update

Summary

On January 3, 2018, Microsoft released an advisory and security updates related to a newly-discovered class of hardware vulnerabilities (known as Spectre and Meltdown) involving speculative execution side channels that affect AMD, ARM, and Intel CPUs to varying degrees. On May 21st, a new subclass of speculative execution side channel vulnerabilities known as Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) was disclosed (CVE-2018-3639). On the same day, Intel disclosed the Rogue System Registry Read vulnerability (CVE-2018-3640).

The following article outlines Trend Micro IM Security's compatibility with the corresponding Microsoft security updates.

Microsoft has released several updates to help mitigate these vulnerabilities - outlined in the following Security Advisories:

As a result, Trend Micro has tested IM Security 1.6 and 1.6.5 and confirms compatibility with the following Microsoft Security Updates:

Product	Operating System	Microsoft Security Update
IM Security 1.6 and 1.6.5	Windows 2012 R2	4338815, 4338824
IM Security 1.6 and 1.6.5	Windows 2016	4284880

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Trend Micro IM Security 1.6x Compatibility with Microsoft Security Updates for Speculative Store Bypass (CVE-2018-3639) and Rogue System Register Read (CVE-2018-3640)

Trend Micro IM Security 1.6x Compatibility with Microsoft Security Updates for Speculative Store Bypass (CVE-2018-3639) and Rogue System Register Read (CVE-2018-3640)

Product / Version includes:

Summary