March 23, 2018 - KB4088881 (Preview of Monthly Rollup) Windows 7

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March 23, 2018—KB4088881 (Preview of Monthly Rollup)

Applies to: Windows 7 Service Pack 1, Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1

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Improvements and fixes

This non-security update includes improvements and fixes that were a part of KB4088875 (released March 13, 2018) and also includes these new quality improvements as a preview of the next Monthly Rollup update:

• Improves reliability in the Kernel, and addresses an issue that can cause applications to have unexpected memory contents on multi-processor systems.
• Addresses issue that decreases the Universal CRT’s performance in the _gcvt and _gcvt_s functions.
• Addresses issue in which the output to a file or pipe was fully buffered in the Universal CRT for the standard error (STDERR) stream.
• Addresses issue in the Universal CRT by adding the "x" access mode flag to support the fopen() function.
• Addresses issue with a race condition in the Universal C Runtime (CRT) that occurs when you update the global locale. The issue corrupts the current locale reference count and triggers a double free condition.

For more information about the resolved security vulnerabilities, see the Security Update Guide.

Known issues in this update



:ar: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3125574

How to get this update
This is provided as an Optional update on Windows Update. For more information about how to run Windows Update, see How to get an update through Windows Update. To get the standalone package for this update, go to the Microsoft Update Catalog website.

File information

A download file that lists all the files that are provided in this update will be posted to this article soon.

Source: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4088881/windows-7-update-kb4088881


Direct download links for KB4088881 MSU file from Microsoft Update Catalog:

:ar: Download KB4088881 MSU for Windows 7 32-bit (x86) - 138.8 MB

:ar: Download KB4088881 MSU for Windows 7 64-bit (x64) - 236.5 MB

 

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In two attempts this update failed to install. I decided to hide it and wait for patch Tuesday.