Summary

This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Project 2013 that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Microsoft Office file. To learn more about these vulnerabilities, see Microsoft Security Bulletin MS15-116. Note After you apply this security update, you may see a popup window that states that a website wants to open web content in protected mode in Internet Explorer. See Updates to change the way that Internet Explorer interacts with features in Microsoft Office applications for more information.For a complete list of affected versions of Office software, see Microsoft Knowledge Base article 3104540.

Improvements and fixes

This security update contains fixes for the following nonsecurity issues:

  • After you apply status updates to project schedules, the actual work contours on some assignments unexpectedly display zero actual work values in various time periods.

  • Assume that you display the Hyperlink field in Project Professional. On a task, you enter an address in the Hyperlink field to a document that's stored on a SharePoint site, and then you click the link. Sometimes in this situation, the document doesn't open, and you're redirected to the root site where the document is stored.

  • Assume that you have a summary task that contains one or more subtasks. Then, you make the summary task become a non-summary task (either by outdenting all subtasks or by deleting all subtasks). In this scenario,the internal property on the task that specifies the duration format (minutes, hours, days, weeks, and months) may not get set correctly. Therefore, when you publish the project, the reporting data is inaccurate, and the duration of the given task isn't correct. 

  • When you use an auto filter on a text type field (such as the task name) and the values in the field are many and varied, Project 2013 may crash.

  • In some cases, a task's % Complete displays 99% even though the % Work Complete on all the assignments on the task shows 100%.

  • Saving to a SharePoint task list from Project Professional 2013 may fail when there's both an enterprise resource and a user account on the Project server that share the same name.

  • When you save a project back to a server, you receive the following error message:

    Project Web App was unable to find the specified resource.

  • After you import and merge data from an external source (for example, from an Excel workbook), only the first assignment on the task is updated.

Additionally, this security update also includes the fixes for the issues that are described in this following Microsoft Knowledge Base article:

  • 3101502 November 10, 2015, update for Project Server 2013

How to get and install the update

Method 1: Microsoft Update

This update is available from Microsoft Update. When you turn on automatic updating, this update will be downloaded and installed automatically. For more information about how to turn on automatic updating, see Get security updates automatically.

Method 2: Microsoft Download Center

You can get the stand-alone update package through the Microsoft Download Center. Follow the installation instructions on the download page to install the update.

More Information

Security update deployment information

For deployment information about this update, see Microsoft Knowledge Base article 3104540.

Prerequisites

To install this security update, you must have Microsoft Project 2013 Service Pack 1 installed.

Update replacement information

This update doesn't replace a previously released update.

The English version of this security update has the file attributes (or later file attributes) that are listed in the following table. The dates and times for these files are listed in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). When you view the file information, it is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the Time Zone tab in the Date and Time item in Control Panel.

For all supported x86-based versions of Project 2013

File identifier

File name

File version

File size

Date

Time

pjintl.dll_1025

pjintl.dll

15.0.4771.1000

4308680

14-Oct-15

07:12

pjintl.dll_1029

pjintl.dll

15.0.4771.1000

4445896

14-Oct-15

07:12

pjintl.dll_1030

pjintl.dll

15.0.4771.1000

4478152

14-Oct-15

07:12

pjintl.dll_1031

pjintl.dll

15.0.4771.1000

4662472

14-Oct-15

07:12

pjintl.dll_1032

pjintl.dll

15.0.4771.1000

4728520

14-Oct-15

07:12

pjintl.dll_3082

pjintl.dll

15.0.4771.1000

4583624

14-Oct-15

07:12

pjintl.dll_1035

pjintl.dll

15.0.4771.1000

4451528

14-Oct-15

07:12

pjintl.dll_1036

pjintl.dll

15.0.4771.1000

4648648

14-Oct-15

07:12

pjintl.dll_1037

pjintl.dll

15.0.4771.1000

4160200

14-Oct-15

07:12

pjintl.dll_1038

pjintl.dll

15.0.4771.1000

4515016

14-Oct-15

07:12

pjintl.dll_1040

pjintl.dll

15.0.4771.1000

4609224

14-Oct-15

07:12

pjintl.dll_1041

pjintl.dll

15.0.4771.1000

3823816

14-Oct-15

07:11

pjintl.dll_1042

pjintl.dll

15.0.4771.1000

3801288

14-Oct-15

07:12

pjintl.dll_1044

pjintl.dll

15.0.4771.1000

4446408

14-Oct-15

07:12

pjintl.dll_1043

pjintl.dll

15.0.4771.1000

4570312

14-Oct-15

07:12

pjintl.dll_1045

pjintl.dll

15.0.4771.1000

4573896

14-Oct-15

07:12

pjintl.dll_1046

pjintl.dll

15.0.4771.1000

4538568

14-Oct-15

07:12

pjintl.dll_2070

pjintl.dll

15.0.4771.1000

4538568

14-Oct-15

07:12

pjintl.dll_1048

pjintl.dll

15.0.4771.1000

4565704

14-Oct-15

07:12

pjintl.dll_1049

pjintl.dll

15.0.4771.1000

4541128

14-Oct-15

07:12

pjintl.dll_1051

pjintl.dll

15.0.4771.1000

4482760

14-Oct-15

07:12

pjintl.dll_1060

pjintl.dll

15.0.4771.1000

4478152

14-Oct-15

07:12

pjintl.dll_1053

pjintl.dll

15.0.4771.1000

4451528

14-Oct-15

07:12

pjintl.dll_1055

pjintl.dll

15.0.4771.1000

4383944

14-Oct-15

07:12

pjintl.dll_1058

pjintl.dll

15.0.4771.1000

4515016

14-Oct-15

07:12

pjintl.dll_2052

pjintl.dll

15.0.4771.1000

3543240

14-Oct-15

07:12

pjintl.dll_1028

pjintl.dll

15.0.4771.1000

3557064

14-Oct-15

07:12

pjintl.dll_1033

pjintl.dll

15.0.4751.1000

4378312

13-Oct-15

10:07

winproj.exe

winproj.exe

15.0.4771.1000

23300264

13-Oct-15

10:07

winproj.man

winproj.exe.manifest

3621

13-Oct-15

10:07

nameext.dll.x64

nameext.dll

15.0.4543.1000

367296

13-Oct-15

10:10

nameext.dll.x86

nameext.dll

15.0.4543.1000

317632

13-Oct-15

10:07

winproj.veman.xml

winproj.visualelementsmanifest.xml

342

13-Oct-15

10:07

For all supported x64-based versions of Project 2013

File identifier

File name

File version

File size

Date

Time

pjintl.dll_1025

pjintl.dll

15.0.4771.1000

4315848

14-Oct-15

07:36

pjintl.dll_1029

pjintl.dll

15.0.4771.1000

4453064

14-Oct-15

07:37

pjintl.dll_1030

pjintl.dll

15.0.4771.1000

4485320

14-Oct-15

07:37

pjintl.dll_1031

pjintl.dll

15.0.4771.1000

4669640

14-Oct-15

07:37

pjintl.dll_1032

pjintl.dll

15.0.4771.1000

4735688

14-Oct-15

07:37

pjintl.dll_3082

pjintl.dll

15.0.4771.1000

4590792

14-Oct-15

07:37

pjintl.dll_1035

pjintl.dll

15.0.4771.1000

4458696

14-Oct-15

07:37

pjintl.dll_1036

pjintl.dll

15.0.4771.1000

4655816

14-Oct-15

07:37

pjintl.dll_1037

pjintl.dll

15.0.4771.1000

4167368

14-Oct-15

07:37

pjintl.dll_1038

pjintl.dll

15.0.4771.1000

4522184

14-Oct-15

07:37

pjintl.dll_1040

pjintl.dll

15.0.4771.1000

4616392

14-Oct-15

07:37

pjintl.dll_1041

pjintl.dll

15.0.4771.1000

3830984

14-Oct-15

07:36

pjintl.dll_1042

pjintl.dll

15.0.4771.1000

3808456

14-Oct-15

07:37

pjintl.dll_1044

pjintl.dll

15.0.4771.1000

4453576

14-Oct-15

07:37

pjintl.dll_1043

pjintl.dll

15.0.4771.1000

4577480

14-Oct-15

07:37

pjintl.dll_1045

pjintl.dll

15.0.4771.1000

4581064

14-Oct-15

07:37

pjintl.dll_1046

pjintl.dll

15.0.4771.1000

4545736

14-Oct-15

07:37

pjintl.dll_2070

pjintl.dll

15.0.4771.1000

4545736

14-Oct-15

07:37

pjintl.dll_1048

pjintl.dll

15.0.4771.1000

4572872

14-Oct-15

07:37

pjintl.dll_1049

pjintl.dll

15.0.4771.1000

4548296

14-Oct-15

07:37

pjintl.dll_1051

pjintl.dll

15.0.4771.1000

4489928

14-Oct-15

07:37

pjintl.dll_1060

pjintl.dll

15.0.4771.1000

4485320

14-Oct-15

07:37

pjintl.dll_1053

pjintl.dll

15.0.4771.1000

4458696

14-Oct-15

07:37

pjintl.dll_1055

pjintl.dll

15.0.4771.1000

4391112

14-Oct-15

07:37

pjintl.dll_1058

pjintl.dll

15.0.4771.1000

4522184

14-Oct-15

07:37

pjintl.dll_2052

pjintl.dll

15.0.4771.1000

3550408

14-Oct-15

07:37

pjintl.dll_1028

pjintl.dll

15.0.4771.1000

3564232

14-Oct-15

07:37

pjintl.dll

pjintl.dll

15.0.4751.1000

4385480

13-Oct-15

10:10

pjintl.dll_1033

pjintl.dll

15.0.4751.1000

4385480

13-Oct-15

10:10

winproj.exe

winproj.exe

15.0.4771.1000

30175912

13-Oct-15

10:10

winproj.man

winproj.exe.manifest

3621

13-Oct-15

10:10

nameext.dll.x64

nameext.dll

15.0.4543.1000

367296

13-Oct-15

10:10

nameext.dll.x86

nameext.dll

15.0.4543.1000

317632

13-Oct-15

10:07

winproj.veman.xml

winproj.visualelementsmanifest.xml

342

13-Oct-15

10:07

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