Evaluation Report (January, 2018)

January, 2018 (Published on the January 10th)

The evaluation results for Microsoft's monthly security update is detailed in this report. The following security updates have been released.

BI products were verified with only the monthly roll up method.
SVF products were verified with both security updates only and with monthly roll up methods.

Release Notes

January 2018 Security Updates (Microsoft Security TechCenter)

The following is an excerpt from the Microsoft's release notes:

The January security release consists of security updates for the following software:

• Internet Explorer
• Microsoft Edge
• Microsoft Windows
• Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office Service, and Web Application
• SQL Server
• ChakraCore
• .NET Framework
• .NET Core
• ASP.NET Core
• Adobe Flash

Security Update

Article (number):

3114998, 3141547, 4011021, 4011201, 4011213, 4011273, 4011574, 4011579, 4011580, 4011599
4011602, 4011605, 4011606, 4011607, 4011609, 4011610, 4011611, 4011615, 4011622, 4011626
4011627, 4011632, 4011636, 4011637, 4011639, 4011641, 4011642, 4011643, 4011648, 4011651
4011653, 4011656, 4011657, 4011658, 4011659, 4011660, 4054170, 4054171, 4054172, 4054174
4054175, 4054176, 4054177, 4054181, 4054182, 4054183, 4054993, 4054994, 4054995, 4054996
4054997, 4054998, 4054999, 4055000, 4055001, 4055002, 4056568, 4056613, 4056615, 4056759
4056887, 4056888, 4056890, 4056891, 4056892, 4056893, 4056894, 4056895, 4056896, 4056897
4056898, 4056899, 4056941, 4056942, 4056944, 4057113, 4057114, 4057118, 4057122, 4058559
4058560, 4058561, 4058562

*You can find the update details for each product on the following site: 
Security Updates Guide (Microsoft Security TechCenter)

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<SVF> Software out of evaluation
• Microsoft Edge
• Microsoft Exchange Server
• Chakra Core
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<BI> Software out of evaluation
• SQL Server
• Chakra Core
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We applied the above security updates to the following products and confirmed no issue occurred.

Operating Systems

• Windows Server 2008 R2
• Windows Server 2008
• Windows Server 2012
• Windows Server 2012 R2
• Windows Server 2016
• Windows Vista
• Windows 7
• Windows 8.1
• Windows 10

Evaluated Products

• Report Director Enterprise Ver. 8.2, Ver 9.x
• SVF for JavaPrint Ver. 8.2, Ver 9.x
• SVF for PDF(SVF for Web / PDF Java Edition) Ver. 8.2, Ver 9.x
• SVF for Web / Client Ver. 6.5a, Ver. 7.5, Ver. 8.2, Ver. 9.x
• Universal Connect / X Ver. 8.2, Ver 9.x
• Print Assistant Server Ver. 8.2, Ver 9.x
• PAlite Ver. 8.2, Ver 9.x
• SPA Ver. 9.3 
• Dr. Sum EA Ver. 5.x 
• Dr.Sum EA Ver. 4.x
• Dr.Sum EA Datalizer Ver. 4.x (*2) 
• MotionBoard Ver. 5.x (*3)

The BI products were evaluated also in the following environments: 
• Office 2016
• Windows 10 (version 1709)

*1: Evaluation was carried out in the recommended system requirement for each product.

*2: Before verification, we applied a patch that fixes an issue that occurs when the MS16-051 (released in May, 2016) is applied to windows systems. For details of the failure, see the following link:
Dr.Sum EA Datalizer Ver. 4.0 SP1 to 4.2: Failure Certain Screens are Partially Displayed in Blank After Applying MS16-051 to IE11

*3: Before verification, we applied a patch that fixes an issue that occurs when the MS16-022 security update (released in February, 2016) is applied to windows systems. For details of the failure, see the following link:
MotionBoard: Failure Unable to Operate the Board After Updating Flash Player

*4: For detail of the failure that occurs when applying Windows 10 Creators Update (1703), see the following link:
MotionBoard Ver. 5.0 to 5.6, MotionChart Ver. 4.1. to 4.2: Problems in displaying MotionBoard and MotionChart UI in some cases on Microsoft's Edge Browser after applying Windows 10 Creators Update