Description: The Cisco Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) product family is affected by these vulnerabilities: Two denial of service (DoS) vulnerabilities; Three privilege escalation vulnerabilities; Two access control list (ACL) bypass vulnerabilities.
Description: Cisco IOS XR Software contains a vulnerability in the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) feature. The vulnerability manifests itself when a BGP peer announces a prefix with a specific, valid but unrecognized transitive attribute. On receipt of this prefix, the Cisco IOS XR device will corrupt the attribute before sending it to the neighboring devices. Neighboring devices that receive this corrupted update may reset the BGP peering session.
Description: Cisco Unified Communications Manager contains two denial of service (DoS) vulnerabilities that affect the processing of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) messages. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities could cause an interruption of voice services.
Description: Cisco Unified Presence contains two denial of service (DoS) vulnerabilities that affect the processing of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) messages. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities could cause an interruption of presence services.
Description: Cisco IOS Software Release, 15.1(2)T is affected by a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability during the TCP establishment phase. The vulnerability could cause embryonic TCP connections to remain in a SYNRCVD or SYNSENT state. Enough embryonic TCP connections in these states could consume system resources and prevent an affected device from accepting or initiating new TCP connections, including any TCP-based remote management access to the device.
Description: The Cisco ACE Application Control Engine Module and Cisco ACE 4710 Application Control Engine contain the following DoS vulnerabilities: Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) inspection DoS vulnerability HTTP, RTSP, and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) inspection DoS vulnerability Secure Socket Layer (SSL) DoS vulnerability SIP inspection DoS vulnerability
Description: Cisco Wireless Control System (WCS) contains a SQL injection vulnerability that could allow an authenticated attacker full access to the vulnerable device, including modification of system configuration; create, modify and delete users; or modify the configuration of wireless devices managed by WCS.
Description: Multiple Cisco products contain either of two authentication vulnerabilities in the Simple Network Management Protocol version 3 (SNMPv3) feature. These vulnerabilities can be exploited when processing a malformed SNMPv3 message. These vulnerabilities could allow the disclosure of network information or may enable an attacker to perform configuration changes to vulnerable devices. The SNMP server is an optional service that is disabled by default in Cisco products. Only SNMPv3 is impacted by these vulnerabilities. Workarounds are available for mitigating the impact of the vulnerabilities described in this document.
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Description: The Cisco Internet Streamer application, part of the Cisco Content Delivery System, contains a directory traversal vulnerability on its web server component that allows for arbitrary file access. By exploiting this vulnerability, an attacker may be able to read arbitrary files on the device, outside of the web server document directory, by using a specially crafted URL.
Description: An industry-wide vulnerability exists in the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol that could impact any Cisco product that uses any version of TLS and SSL. The vulnerability exists in how the protocol handles session renegotiation and exposes users to a potential man-in-the-middle attack.
Description: Updated workarounds.
Description: Multiple vulnerabilities exist in the Cisco Network Building Mediator (NBM) products. These vulnerabilities also affect the legacy Richards-Zeta Mediator products.
Description: Cisco Small Business Video Surveillance Cameras and Cisco RVS4000 4-port Gigabit Security Routers contain a vulnerability that could allow an authenticated user to view passwords for other users, regardless of the authenticated user's level of authorization.
Description: A vulnerability exists in the IOS HTTP server in which HTML code inserted into dynamically generated output, such as the output from a show buffers command, will be passed to the browser requesting the page. This HTML code could be interpreted by the client browser and potentially execute malicious commands against the device or other possible cross-site scripting attacks. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires that a user browse a page containing dynamic content in which HTML commands have been injected.
Description: Added caution about debug commands.
Description: Update made to iACL example.
Description: Multiple vulnerabilities exist in the Cisco Digital Media Manager (DMM). This security advisory outlines details.
Description: A vulnerability exists in the Cisco Digital Media Player that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to inject video or data content into a remote display.
Description: Cisco IronPort Encryption Appliance devices contain two vulnerabilities that allow remote, unauthenticated access to any file on the device and one vulnerability that allows remote, unauthenticated users to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges. There are workarounds available to mitigate these vulnerabilities.
Description: Multiple vulnerabilities exist in Cisco Unified MeetingPlace. This security advisory outlines the details of these vulnerabilities.
Description: Multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities exist in the Cisco WebEx Recording Format (WRF) Player. In some cases, exploitation of the vulnerabilities could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system of a targeted user.
Description: The Cisco Application Control Engine Global Site Selector (GSS) contains a vulnerability when processing specific Domain Name System (DNS) requests that may lead to a crash of the DNS service on the GSS.
Description: Revision Note: V1.1 (August 31, 2010) Added a link to Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 2264107 to provide an automated Microsoft Fix it solution for the workaround, Disable loading of libraries from WebDAV and remote network shares. Advisory Summary:Microsoft is aware that research has been published detailing a remote attack vector for a class of vulnerabilities that affects how applications load external libraries.
Description: Revision Note: V2.0 (August 10, 2010): Advisory updated to reflect publication of security bulletin. Advisory Summary:Microsoft has completed the investigation into a public report of this vulnerability. We have issued MS10-049 to address this issue. For more information about this issue, including download links for an available security update, please review MS10-049. The vulnerability addressed is the TLS/SSL Renegotiation Vulnerability - CVE-2009-3555. For additional information on this advisory, see Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 977377.
Description: Revision Note: V1.0 (August 10, 2010): Advisory published. Advisory Summary:Microsoft is aware of the potential for attacks that leverage the Windows Service Isolation feature to gain elevation of privilege. This advisory discusses potential attack scenarios and provides suggested actions that can help to protect against this issue. This advisory also offers a non-security update for one of the potential attack scenarios through Windows Telephony Application Programming Interfaces (TAPI).
Description: Revision Note: V2.0 (August 2, 2010): Advisory updated to reflect publication of security bulletin. Advisory Summary:Microsoft has completed the investigation into a public report of this vulnerability.
Description: Revision Note: V2.0 (July 13, 2010): Advisory updated to reflect publication of security bulletin. Advisory Summary:Microsoft has completed the investigation into a public report of this vulnerability. We have issued MS10-042 to address this issue. For more information about this issue, including download links for an available security update, please review MS10-042. The vulnerability addressed is the Help Center URL Validation Vulnerability - CVE-2010-1885.
Description: Revision Note: V2.0 (July 13, 2010): Advisory updated to reflect publication of security bulletin. Advisory Summary:Microsoft has completed the investigation into a public report of this vulnerability. We have issued MS10-043 to address this issue. For more information about this issue, including download links for an available security update, please review MS10-043. The vulnerability addressed is the Canonical Display Driver Integer Overflow Vulnerability - CVE-2009-3678.
Description: Revision Note: V1.2 (June 9, 2010): Added information about MS10-035 and clarified a FAQ entry about the caching vector. Advisory Summary:Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a vulnerability in Internet Explorer. This advisory contains information about which versions of Internet Explorer are vulnerable as well as workarounds and mitigations for this issue.
Description: Revision Note: V2.0 (June 8, 2010): Advisory updated to reflect publication of security bulletin. Advisory Summary:Microsoft has completed the investigation into a public report of this vulnerability. We have issued MS10-039 to address this issue. For more information about this issue, including download links for an available security update, please review MS10-039. The vulnerability addressed is the Help.aspx XSS Vulnerability - CVE-2010-0817.
Description: Revision Note: V1.5 (June 8, 2010): Updated the FAQ with information about six non-security updates enabling .NET Framework to opt in to Extended Protection for Authentication. Advisory Summary:Microsoft is announcing the availability of a new feature, Extended Protection for Authentication, on the Windows platform. This feature enhances the protection and handling of credentials when authenticating network connections using Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA).
Description: Revision Note: V2.0 (April 13, 2010): Advisory updated to reflect publication of security bulletin. Advisory Summary:Microsoft has completed the investigation into a public report of this vulnerability. We have issued MS10-022 to address this issue. For more information about this issue, including download links for an available security update, please review MS10-022. The vulnerability addressed is the VBScript Help Keypress Vulnerability - CVE-2010-0483.
Description: Revision Note: V2.0 (April 13, 2010): Advisory updated to reflect publication of security bulletin. Advisory Summary:Microsoft has completed the investigation into a public report of this vulnerability. We have issued MS10-020 to address this issue. For more information about this issue, including download links for an available security update, please review MS10-020. The vulnerability addressed is the SMB Client Incomplete Response Vulnerability - CVE-2009-3676.
Description: Revision Note: V2.0 (March 30, 2010): Advisory updated to reflect publication of security bulletin. Advisory Summary:Microsoft has completed the investigation into a public report of this vulnerability. We have issued MS10-018 to address this issue. For more information about this issue, including download links for an available security update, please review MS10-018. The vulnerability addressed is the Uninitialized Memory Corruption Vulnerability - CVE-2010-0806.
Description: Revision Note: V2.0 (February 9, 2010): Advisory updated to reflect publication of security bulletin. Advisory Summary:Microsoft has completed the investigation into a public report of this vulnerability. We have issued MS10-015 to address this issue. For more information about this issue, including download links for an available security update, please review MS10-015. The vulnerability addressed is the Windows Kernel Exception Handler Vulnerability - CVE-2010-0232.
Description: Revision Note: V2.0 (January 21, 2010): Advisory updated to reflect publication of security bulletin Advisory Summary:Microsoft has completed the investigation the public reports of this vulnerability. We have issued MS10-002 to address this issue. For more information about this issue, including download links for an available security update, please review MS10-002. The vulnerability addressed is the HTML Object Memory Corruption Vulnerability - CVE-2010-0249.
Description: Revision Note: V1.0 (January 12, 2010): Advisory published. Advisory Summary:Security Advisory
Description: Revision Note: V2.0 (December 8, 2009): Advisory updated to reflect publication of security bulletin. Advisory Summary:Microsoft has completed investigating public reports of this vulnerability. We have issued Microsoft Security Bulletin MS09-072 to address this issue. For more information about this issue, including download links for an available security update, please review MS09-072. The vulnerability addressed is the HTML Object Memory Corruption Vulnerability - CVE-2009-3672.
Description: Revision Note: V1.0 (December 8, 2009): Advisory published. Advisory Summary:This advisory addresses the potential for attacks that affect the handling of credentials using Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA), and the mechanisms Microsoft has made available for customers to help protect against these attacks.
Description: Revision Note: V1.0 (December 8, 2009): Advisory published. Advisory Summary:Microsoft is announcing the availability of an update that provides security mitigations to the Indeo codec on supported editions of Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003.
Description: Revision Note: V2.0 (October 13, 2009): Advisory updated to reflect publication of security bulletin. Advisory Summary:Security Advisory
Description: Revision Note: V3.0 (October 13, 2009): Advisory updated to reflect publication of security bulletin. Advisory Summary:Microsoft has completed the investigation into a public report of this issue. We have released MS09-053 to address this issue. For more information about this issue, including download links for an available security update, please review MS09-053. The vulnerabilities addressed are the IIS FTP Service DoS Vulnerability (CVE-2009-2521) and the IIS FTP Service RCE and DoS Vulnerability (CVE-2009-3023).
Description: Revision Note: V4.0 (October 13, 2009): Advisory revised to add an entry in the Updates related to ATL section to communicate the release of Microsoft Security Bulletin MS09-060, "Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Active Template Library (ATL) ActiveX Controls for Microsoft Office Could Allow Remote Code Execution." Advisory Summary:Security Advisory
Description: Revision Note: V1.1 (August 25, 2009): Summary revised to notify users of an update to Autorun that restricts AutoPlay functionality to CD-ROM and DVD-ROM media, available for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2008 from Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 971029. Advisory Summary:Microsoft is announcing the availability of an update that corrects a functionality feature that can help customers in keeping their systems protected. The update corrects an issue that prevents the NoDriveTypeAutoRun registry key from functioning as expected.
Description: Revision Note: V2.0 (August 11, 2009): Advisory updated to reflect publication of security bulletin. Advisory Summary:Microsoft has completed the investigation of a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Office Web Components. We have issued MS09-043 to address this issue. For more information about this issue, including download links for an available security update, please review MS09-043. The vulnerability addressed is the Office Web Components HTML Script Vulnerability - CVE-2009-1136.
Description: Revision Note: V2.0 (July 14, 2009): Advisory updated to reflect publication of security bulletin. Advisory Summary:Microsoft has completed the investigation into a public report of this vulnerability. We have issued MS09-032 to address this issue. For more information about this issue, including download links for an available security update, please review MS09-032. The vulnerability addressed is the Microsoft Video ActiveX Control Vulnerability - CVE-2008-0015.
Description: Revision Note: V2.0 (July 14, 2009): Advisory updated to reflect publication of security bulletin. Advisory Summary:Microsoft has completed the investigation into a public report of this vulnerability. We have issued MS09-028 to address this issue. For more information about this issue, including download links for an available security update, please review MS09-028. The vulnerability addressed is the DirectX NULL Byte Overwrite Vulnerability - CVE-2009-1537.
Description: Revision Note: V1.1 (June 17, 2009): Added an entry to Frequently Asked Questions to communicate that for the purpose of automatic updating, this update does not replace the Cumulative Security Update of ActiveX Kill Bits (950760) that is described in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-032. Advisory Summary:Microsoft is releasing a new set of ActiveX kill bits with this advisory.
Description: Revision Note: V1.2 (June 17, 2009): Added an entry to Frequently Asked Questions to communicate that for the purpose of automatic updating, this update does not replace the Cumulative Security Update of ActiveX Kill Bits (950760) that is described in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-032. Advisory Summary:Microsoft is releasing a new set of ActiveX kill bits with this advisory.
Description: Revision Note: V1.3 (June 17, 2009): Added an entry to Frequently Asked Questions to communicate that for the purpose of automatic updating, this update does not replace the Cumulative Security Update of ActiveX Kill Bits (950760) that is described in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-032. Advisory Summary:Microsoft is releasing a new set of ActiveX kill bits with this advisory.
Description: Revision Note: Advisory published. Advisory Summary:Microsoft is announcing the availability of an update to DNS devolution that can help customers in keeping their systems protected. Customers whose domain name has three or more labels , such as "contoso.co.us", or who do not have a DNS suffix list configured, or for whom the following mitigating factors do not apply may inadvertently be allowing client systems to treat systems outside of the organizational boundary as though they were internal to the organization's boundary.
Description: Revision Note: V2.0 (June 9, 2009): Advisory updated to reflect publication of security bulletin. Advisory Summary:Microsoft has completed the investigation into a public report of this vulnerability. We have issued MS09-020 to address this issue. For more information about this issue, including download links for an available security update, please review MS09-020. The vulnerability addressed is the IIS 5.1 and 6.0 WebDAV Authentication Bypass Vulnerability - CVE-2009-1535.
Description: Revision Note: V2.0 (June 9, 2009): Advisory updated to reflect publication of security bulletin MS09-008 and Microsoft Security Advisory 971888. Advisory Summary:Microsoft has completed the investigation into a public report of this vulnerability. We have issued MS09-008 to address the WPAD issue and have released configuration guidance and updates for DNS devolution in Microsoft Security Advisory 971888. For more information about this issue, including download links for an available security update, please review MS09-008 and Microsoft Security Advisory 971888. The vulnerabilities addressed are the WPAD server registration vulnerabilities in WINS and DNS - CVE-2009-0094 and CVE-2009-0093.
Description: Revision Note: V2.0 (May 12, 2009): Advisory updated to reflect publication of security bulletin. Advisory Summary:Microsoft has completed the investigation into a public report of this vulnerability. We have issued MS09-017 to address this issue. For more information about this issue, including download links for an available security update, please review MS09-017. The vulnerability addressed is the Memory Corruption Vulnerability - CVE-2009-0556.
Description: Revision Note: V3.0 (April 14, 2009) Advisory updated to reflect publication of security bulletin. Advisory Summary:Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a vulnerability in Microsoft Office Excel that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Excel file. At this time, we are aware only of limited and targeted attacks that attempt to use this vulnerability.
Description: Revision Note: V2.0 (April 14, 2009): Advisory updated to reflect publication of security bulletin. Advisory Summary:Microsoft is investigating new reports of a vulnerability in the WordPad Text Converter for Word 97 files on Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, Windows XP Service Pack 2, Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2. Windows XP Service Pack 3, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2008 are not affected as these operating systems do not contain the vulnerable code.
Description: Revision Note: V2.0 (April 14, 2009): Added references and links to MS09-014 and MS09-015, which address the issue in this advisory. Advisory Summary:Microsoft has investigated public reports of a blended threat that allows remote code execution on all supported versions of Windows XP and Windows Vista when Apple’s Safari for Windows has been installed. Safari is not installed with Windows XP or Windows Vista by default; it must be installed independently or through the Apple Software Update application. Customers running Safari on Windows should review this advisory.
Description: Revision Note: V3.0 (April 14, 2009): Advisory updated to reflect publication of security bulletin. Advisory Summary:Security Advisory
Description: Revision Note: V1.3 (March 11, 2009): Added an entry to Frequently Asked Questions to communicate that for the purpose of automatic updating, this update does not replace the Cumulative Security Update of ActiveX Kill Bits (950760) that is described in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-032. Advisory Summary:Microsoft is releasing a new set of ActiveX kill bits with this advisory.
Description: Revision Note: V2.0 (February 10, 2009): Advisory updated to reflect publication of security bulletin. Advisory Summary:Microsoft has completed the investigation into a public report of this vulnerability. We have issued MS09-004 to address this issue. For more information about this issue, including download links for an available security update, please review MS09-004. The vulnerability addressed is the Microsoft XML Core Services Vulnerability - CVE-2008-5416.
Description: Revision Note: Advisory published Advisory Summary:Microsoft is aware that research was published at a security conference proving a successful attack against X.509 digital certificates signed using the MD5 hashing algorithm. This attack method would allow an attacker to generate additional digital certificates with different content that have the same digital signature as an original certificate. The MD5 algorithm had previously shown a vulnerability, but a practical attack had not yet been demonstrated.
Description: Revision Note: December 17, 2008: Advisory updated to reflect publication of security bulletin. Advisory Summary:Microsoft has completed the investigation into a public report of this vulnerability. We have issued MS08-078 to address this issue. For more information about this issue, including download links for an available security update, please review MS08-078. The vulnerability addressed is the Microsoft XML Core Services Vulnerability - CVE-2008-4844.
Description: Revision Note: Advisory published Advisory Summary:Security Advisory
Description: Revision Note: Advisory updated to reflect publication of security bulletin. Advisory Summary:Microsoft has completed the investigation into a private report of this vulnerability. We have issued MS08-041 to address this issue. For more information about this issue, including download links for an available security update, please review MS08-041. The vulnerability addressed is the Snapshot Viewer Arbitrary File Download Vulnerability - CVE-2008-2463.
Description: Revision Note: August 12, 2008: Added entry to the section, Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Related to This Security Update to communicate that the re-release of the update to fix a known installation issue with Windows Server 2008 systems is now available via Microsoft Update. Advisory Summary:Microsoft has completed the investigation into public reports of a non-security issue that prevents the distribution of any updates deployed through Microsoft Windows Server Update Services 3.0 or Microsoft Windows Server Update Services 3.0 Service Pack 1 to client systems that have Microsoft Office 2003 installed in their environment. Microsoft confirmed those reports and has released an update to correct this issue under Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 954960. Microsoft encourages customers affected by this issue to review and install this update.
Description: Revision Note: Advisory updated to reflect publication of security bulletin. Advisory Summary:Microsoft has completed the investigation into a public report of this vulnerability. We have issued MS08-042 to address this issue. For more information about this issue, including download links for an available security update, please review MS08-042. The vulnerability addressed is the Word Record Parsing Vulnerability - CVE-2008-2244.
Description: Revision Note: July 25, 2008: Advisory published. Advisory Summary:Microsoft released Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-037, Vulnerabilities in DNS Could Allow Spoofing (953230), on July 8, 2008, offering security updates to protect customers against Windows Domain Name System (DNS) spoofing attacks. Microsoft released this update in coordination with other DNS vendors who were also similarly impacted. Since the coordinated release of these updates, the threat to DNS systems has increased due to a greater public understanding of the attacks, as well as detailed exploit code being published on the Internet.
Description: Revision Note: June 25, 2008: Removed erroneous references to form field and cookie value testing from the HP Scrawlr tool description. Advisory Summary:Microsoft is aware of a recent escalation in a class of attacks targeting Web sites that use Microsoft ASP and ASP.NET technologies but do not follow best practices for secure Web application development. These SQL injection attacks do not exploit a specific software vulnerability, but instead target Web sites that do not follow secure coding practices for accessing and manipulating data stored in a relational database. When a SQL injection attack succeeds, an attacker can compromise data stored in these databases and possibly execute remote code. Clients browsing to a compromised server could be forwarded unknowingly to malicious sites that may install malware on the client machine.
Description: Revision Note: June 17, 2008: Advisory updated to reflect availability of fix. Advisory Summary:Microsoft has completed the investigation into public reports of a non-security issue that affects environments with all supported versions of System Center Configuration Manager 2007 that deploy updates to Systems Management Services (SMS) 2003 clients. Microsoft has confirmed those reports and has released an update to correct this issue under Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 954474. Microsoft encourages customers affected by this issue to review and install this update.
Description: Revision Note: May 13, 2008: Advisory updated to reflect publication of security bulletin. Advisory Summary:Microsoft has completed the investigation into public reports of this vulnerability. We have issued Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-028 to address this issue. For more information about this issue, including download links for an available security update, please review MS08-028: Vulnerability in Microsoft Jet Database Engine Could Allow Remote Code Execution (950749). The vulnerability addressed is the Microsoft Jet Engine MDB File Parsing Stack Overflow Vulnerability - CVE-2007-6026.
Description: Revision Note: April 23, 2008: Added an FAQ entry about known issues in installing the kernel update Advisory Summary:Security Advisory
Description: Revision Note: Advisory updated to reflect the correct Excel file formats in the MOICE Workarounds section. Advisory Summary:Microsoft has completed the investigation into a public report of this vulnerability. We have issued MS08-014 to address this issue. For more information about this issue, including download links for an available security update, please review MS08-014. The vulnerability addressed is the Microsoft Excel Vulnerability - CVE-2008-0081.
Description: Revision Note: V2.1 (September 1, 2010): Added note for MS10-056 to inform customers using Word 2007 that in addition to security update package KB2251419, they also need to install the security update package KB2277947.Summary: This bulletin summary lists security bulletins released for August 2010.
Description: Severity Rating: Critical - Revision Note: V1.3 (September 1, 2010): Added note to the affected software table to inform customers using Word 2007 that in addition to security update package KB2251419, they also need to install the security update package KB2277947 to be protected from the vulnerabilities described in this bulletin.Summary: This security update resolves four privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office. The most severe vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user opens or previews a specially crafted RTF e-mail message. An attacker who successfully exploited any of these vulnerabilities could gain the same user rights as the local user. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
Description: Severity Rating: Critical - Revision Note: V1.1 (September 1, 2010): Corrected the bulletin replacement information for this update. This is an informational change only. There were no changes to the detection logic or the update files.Summary: This security update resolves one publicly disclosed vulnerability and one privately reported vulnerability in the Secure Channel (SChannel) security package in Windows. The more severe of these vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user visits a specially crafted Web site that is designed to exploit these vulnerabilities through an Internet Web browser. In all cases, however, an attacker would have no way to force users to visit these Web sites. Instead, an attacker would have to convince users to visit the Web site, typically by getting them to click a link in an e-mail message or in an Instant Messenger message that takes users to the attacker's Web site.
Description: Revision Note: V1.1 (August 31, 2010) Added a link to Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 2264107 to provide an automated Microsoft Fix it solution for the workaround, Disable loading of libraries from WebDAV and remote network shares.Summary: Microsoft is aware that research has been published detailing a remote attack vector for a class of vulnerabilities that affects how applications load external libraries.
Description: Severity Rating: Critical - Revision Note: V1.2 (August 25, 2010): Removed erroneous reference to a Microsoft Fix it solution from the workarounds for SMB Stack Exhaustion Vulnerability - CVE-2010-2552.Summary: This security update resolves several privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows. The most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if an attacker created a specially crafted SMB packet and sent the packet to an affected system. Firewall best practices and standard default firewall configurations can help protect networks from attacks originating outside the enterprise perimeter that would attempt to exploit these vulnerabilities.
Description: Severity Rating: Critical - Revision Note: V1.2 (August 24, 2010): Added an update FAQ to announce a detection change. This is a detection change only. There were no changes to the security update files in this bulletin. Customers who have already installed the update successfully do not need to reinstall.Summary: This security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability in Windows Shell. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if the icon of a specially crafted shortcut is displayed. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the local user. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
Description: Severity Rating: Important - Revision Note: V1.1 (August 18, 2010): Added workaround for IPv6 Memory Corruption Vulnerability - CVE-2010-1892.Summary: This security update resolves two privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows. The more severe of these vulnerabilities could allow elevation of privilege due to an error in the processing of a specific input buffer. An attacker who is able to log on to the target system could exploit this vulnerability and run arbitrary code with system-level privileges. The attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.
Description: Severity Rating: Critical - Revision Note: V1.1 (August 12, 2010): Added Windows Server 2008 for 32-bit Systems and Windows Server 2008 for 32-bit Systems Service Pack 2 to the Non-Affected Software table.Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Cinepak Codec. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted media file or receives specially crafted streaming content from a Web site or any application that delivers Web content. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the local user. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
Description: Revision Note: V3.1 (August 11, 2010): Removed Windows Movie Maker 2.6 as an affected component on Windows 7 for MS10-016.Summary: This bulletin summary lists security bulletins released for March 2010.
Description: Severity Rating: Critical - Revision Note: V1.1 (August 11, 2010): Added a link to Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 2265906 under Known Issues in the Executive Summary. Also corrected the entries for Microsoft Silverlight in the Non-Affected Software table and the workarounds for Microsoft Silverlight Memory Corruption Vulnerability - CVE-2010-0019.Summary: This security update resolves two privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft .NET Framework and Microsoft Silverlight. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution on a client system if a user views a specially crafted Web page using a Web browser that can run XAML Browser Applications (XBAPs) or Silverlight applications, or if an attacker succeeds in convincing a user to run a specially crafted Microsoft .NET application. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights. The vulnerabilities could also allow remote code execution on a server system running IIS, if that server allows processing ASP.NET pages and an attacker succeeds in uploading a specially crafted ASP.NET page to that server and executing the page, as could be the case in a Web hosting scenario.
Description: Severity Rating: Important - Revision Note: V1.1 (August 11, 2010): Added a link to Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 2269707 under Known Issues in the Executive Summary.Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Office. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Excel file. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the logged-on user. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
Description: Severity Rating: Important - Revision Note: V1.1 (August 11, 2010): Added a link to Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 981997 under Known Issues in the Executive Summary.Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Windows Movie Maker. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if an attacker sent a specially crafted Movie Maker project file and convinced the user to open the specially crafted file. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
Description: Severity Rating: Important - Revision Note: V2.3 (August 11, 2010): Removed Windows Movie Maker 2.6 as an affected component on Windows 7.Summary: This security update addresses a privately reported vulnerability in Windows Movie Maker and Microsoft Producer 2003. Windows Live Movie Maker, which is available for Windows Vista and Windows 7, is not affected by this vulnerability. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if an attacker sent a specially crafted Movie Maker or Microsoft Producer project file and convinced the user to open the specially crafted file. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
Description: Severity Rating: Important - Revision Note: V1.0 (August 10, 2010): Bulletin published.Summary: This security update resolves one publicly disclosed vulnerability and one privately reported vulnerability in the Tracing Feature for Services. The vulnerabilities could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker runs a specially crafted application. An attacker must have valid logon credentials and be able to log on locally to exploit this vulnerability. The vulnerability could not be exploited remotely or by anonymous users.
Description: Severity Rating: Critical - Revision Note: V1.0 (August 10, 2010): Bulletin published.Summary: This security update resolves six privately reported vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. The most severe vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted Web page using Internet Explorer. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
Description: Severity Rating: Critical - Revision Note: V1.0 (August 10, 2010): Bulletin published.Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft MPEG Layer-3 audio codecs. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted media file or receives specially crafted streaming content from a Web site or any application that delivers Web content. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the local user. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
Description: Severity Rating: Critical - Revision Note: V1.0 (August 10, 2010): Bulletin published.Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft XML Core Services. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user viewed a specially crafted Web page using Internet Explorer. An attacker would have no way to force users to visit these Web sites. Instead, an attacker would have to persuade users to visit the Web site, typically by getting them to click a link in an e-mail message or Instant Messenger message that takes users to the attacker's Web site.
Description: Severity Rating: Important - Revision Note: V1.0 (August 10, 2010): Bulletin published.Summary: This security update resolves one publicly disclosed and four privately reported vulnerabilities in the Windows kernel-mode drivers. The most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker logs on to an affected system and runs a specially crafted application. An attacker must have valid logon credentials and be able to log on locally to exploit this vulnerability. The vulnerability could not be exploited remotely or by anonymous users.
Description: Severity Rating: Important - Revision Note: V1.0 (August 10, 2010): Bulletin published.Summary: This security update resolves several privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows. The most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker logged on locally and ran a specially crafted application. An attacker must have valid logon credentials and be able to log on locally to exploit these vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities could not be exploited remotely or by anonymous users.
Description: Revision Note: V2.0 (August 10, 2010): Advisory updated to reflect publication of security bulletin.Summary: Microsoft has completed the investigation into a public report of this vulnerability. We have issued MS10-049 to address this issue. For more information about this issue, including download links for an available security update, please review MS10-049. The vulnerability addressed is the TLS/SSL Renegotiation Vulnerability - CVE-2009-3555. For additional information on this advisory, see Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 977377.
Description: Revision Note: V1.0 (August 10, 2010): Advisory published.Summary: Microsoft is aware of the potential for attacks that leverage the Windows Service Isolation feature to gain elevation of privilege. This advisory discusses potential attack scenarios and provides suggested actions that can help to protect against this issue. This advisory also offers a non-security update for one of the potential attack scenarios through Windows Telephony Application Programming Interfaces (TAPI).
Description: Revision Note: V2.0 (August 2, 2010): Advisory updated to reflect publication of security bulletin.Summary: Microsoft has completed the investigation into a public report of this vulnerability.
Description: Severity Rating: Critical - Revision Note: V1.4 (July 21, 2010): Corrected the value of the dword associated with enabling the defense-in-depth protection in the section, Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Related to This Security Update. Users who previously enabled the defense-in-depth protection against the blended threat issue should verify their environment is using the correct dword value.Summary: This security update resolves four privately reported vulnerabilities and two publicly disclosed vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted Web page using Internet Explorer or if a user connects to an attacker's server by way of the HTTP protocol. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
Description: Revision Note: V1.1 (July 14, 2010): Removed erroneous reference to Windows Embedded Standard 7 for MS10-043.Summary: This bulletin summary lists security bulletins released for July 2010.
Description: Severity Rating: Important - Revision Note: V1.1 (July 14, 2010): Added a link to Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 978212 under Known Issues in the Executive Summary.Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user opened an attachment in a specially crafted e-mail message using an affected version of Microsoft Office Outlook. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the local user. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
Description: Severity Rating: Critical - Revision Note: V1.1 (July 14, 2010): Added a link to Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 982335 under Known Issues in the Executive Summary.Summary: This security update resolves two privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Access ActiveX Controls. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user opened a specially crafted Office file or viewed a Web page that instantiated Access ActiveX controls. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
Description: Severity Rating: Critical - Revision Note: V1.1 (July 14, 2010): Added an entry to the update FAQ to provide guidance for Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Beta and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Beta releases. Also removed erroneous references to Windows Embedded Standard 7.Summary: This security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability in the Canonical Display Driver (cdd.dll). Although it is possible that the vulnerability could allow code execution, successful code execution is unlikely due to memory randomization. In most scenarios, it is much more likely that an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could cause the affected system to stop responding and automatically restart.
Description: Revision Note: V4.0 (July 13, 2010): Revised to offer the rereleased security update for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 for MS10-024.Summary: This bulletin summary lists security bulletins released for April 2010.
Description: Severity Rating: Critical - Revision Note: V1.0 (July 13, 2010): Bulletin published.Summary: This security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability in the Windows Help and Support Center feature that is delivered with supported editions of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. This vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted Web page using a Web browser or clicks a specially crafted link in an e-mail message. The vulnerability cannot be exploited automatically through e-mail. For an attack to be successful, a user must click a link listed within an e-mail message.
Description: Severity Rating: Important - Revision Note: V1.4 (July 13, 2010): Revised this bulletin to announce an installation logic change to the updates for Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 Service Pack 1 (KB979906) and Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 2 and Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (KB979909). This is an installation logic change only that does not affect the update files contained in the initial update. Customers who have successfully updated their systems do not need to reinstall this update.Summary: This security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability in Microsoft .NET Framework. The vulnerability could allow data tampering of signed XML content without being detected. In custom applications, the security impact depends on how the signed content is used in the specific application. Scenarios in which signed XML messages are transmitted over a secure channel (such as SSL) are not affected by this vulnerability.
Description: Severity Rating: Important - Revision Note: V2.0 (July 13, 2010): Rereleased bulletin to reoffer the updates for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 to address the known issue listed in KB 976323.Summary: This security update resolves one publicly disclosed vulnerability and one privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange and Windows SMTP Service. The more severe of these vulnerabilities could allow denial of service if an attacker sent a specially crafted DNS response to a computer running the SMTP service. By default, the SMTP component is not installed on Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition, or Windows XP Professional x64 Edition.
Description: Severity Rating: Important - Revision Note: V1.1 (July 13, 2010): Added an entry in the Update FAQ to announce a detection change to the update for Windows 7 for 32-bit Systems. This is a detection change only. There were no changes to the security update files in this bulletin. Customers who have already installed the update successfully do not need to reinstall.Summary: This security update resolves several privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows. The most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker logged on locally and ran a specially crafted application. An attacker must have valid logon credentials and be able to log on locally to exploit these vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities could not be exploited remotely or by anonymous users.
Description: Revision Note: V2.0 (July 13, 2010): Advisory updated to reflect publication of security bulletin.Summary: Microsoft has completed the investigation into a public report of this vulnerability. We have issued MS10-042 to address this issue. For more information about this issue, including download links for an available security update, please review MS10-042. The vulnerability addressed is the Help Center URL Validation Vulnerability - CVE-2010-1885.
Description: Revision Note: V2.0 (July 13, 2010): Advisory updated to reflect publication of security bulletin.Summary: Microsoft has completed the investigation into a public report of this vulnerability. We have issued MS10-043 to address this issue. For more information about this issue, including download links for an available security update, please review MS10-043. The vulnerability addressed is the Canonical Display Driver Integer Overflow Vulnerability - CVE-2009-3678.
Description: Severity Rating: Important - Revision Note: V1.1 (June 30, 2010): Added a link to Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 982666 under Known Issues in the Executive Summary to address the issue where specific installations of IIS fail on restart after installing this security update.Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Internet Information Services (IIS). The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user received a specially crafted HTTP request. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of an affected system.
Description: Severity Rating: Important - Revision Note: V1.2 (June 30, 2010): Added a link to Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 2027452 under Known Issues in the Executive Summary.Summary: This security update resolves fourteen privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office. The more severe vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Excel file. An attacker who successfully exploited any of these vulnerabilities could gain the same user rights as the local user. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
Description: Severity Rating: Important - Revision Note: V1.1 (June 30, 2010): Added a link to Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 971032 under Known Issues in the Executive Summary.Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in the Windows Message Queuing Service (MSMQ). The vulnerability could allow elevation of privilege if a user received a specially crafted request to an affected MSMQ service. By default, the Message Queuing component is not installed on any affected operating system edition and can only be enabled by a user with administrative privileges. Only customers who manually install the Message Queuing component are likely to be vulnerable to this issue.
Description: Severity Rating: Critical - Revision Note: V1.3 (June 23, 2010): Corrected the verification registry keys for Quartz.dll (DirectShow), Asycfilt.dll (COM component), and Windows Media Format Runtime 9.5 on Windows XP Professional x64 Edition Service Pack 2.Summary: This security update resolves two privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows. These vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted media file or receives specially crafted streaming content from a Web site or any application that delivers Web content. An attacker who successfully exploited these vulnerabilities could gain the same user rights as the local user. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
Description: Severity Rating: Critical - Revision Note: V1.1 (June 22, 2010): Revised this bulletin to announce a detection logic change to fix a reoffer issue with MPEG Layer-3 codecs on Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4. This is a detection change only that does not affect the files contained in the initial update. Customers who have successfully updated their systems do not need to reinstall this update.Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft MPEG Layer-3 audio codecs. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user opened a specially crafted AVI file containing an MPEG Layer-3 audio stream. If a user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
Description: Revision Note: V4.2 (June 22, 2010): Removed .NET Framework 1.1 Service Pack 1 as an affected component on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 for MS09-061.Summary: This bulletin summary lists security bulletins released for October 2009.
Description: Severity Rating: Critical - Revision Note: V1.4 (June 22, 2010): Removed .NET Framework 1.1 Service Pack 1 as an affected component on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.Summary: This security update resolves three privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft .NET Framework and Microsoft Silverlight. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution on a client system if a user views a specially crafted Web page using a Web browser that can run XAML Browser Applications (XBAPs) or Silverlight applications, or if an attacker succeeds in persuading a user to run a specially crafted Microsoft .NET application. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights. The vulnerabilities could also allow remote code execution on a server system running IIS, if that server allows processing ASP.NET pages and an attacker succeeds in uploading a specially crafted ASP.NET page to that server and executing it, as could be the case in a Web hosting scenario. Microsoft .NET applications, Silverlight applications, XBAPs and ASP.NET pages that are not malicious are not at risk of being compromised because of this vulnerability.
Description: Severity Rating: Important - Revision Note: V1.1 (June 16, 2010): Corrected the update file name for Microsoft Office Word 2007 in the Security Update Deployment section. Also added an entry to the update FAQ to explain why the update may be offered even when none of the affected software is present on the system.Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in COM validation in Microsoft Office. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Excel, Word, Visio, Publisher, or PowerPoint file with an affected version of Microsoft Office. The vulnerability cannot be exploited automatically through e-mail. For an attack to be successful a user must open an attachment that is sent in an e-mail message.
Description: Severity Rating: Critical - Revision Note: V1.1 (June 16, 2010): Corrected the Disable the IEDTExplorer Component workaround for CVE-2010-1261. Summary: This security update resolves five privately reported vulnerabilities and one publicly disclosed vulnerability in Internet Explorer. The most severe vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted Web page using Internet Explorer. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
Description: Revision Note: V1.1 (June 9, 2010): Revised the notes for MS10-033 in the section, Affected Software and Download Locations.Summary: This bulletin summary lists security bulletins released for June 2010.
Description: Severity Rating: Important - Revision Note: V1.2 (June 9, 2010): Added a link to Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 978037 under Known Issues in the Executive Summary.Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Client/Server Run-time Subsystem (CSRSS). The vulnerability could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker logs on to the system and starts a specially crafted application designed to continue running after the attacker logs out. An attacker must have valid logon credentials and be able to log on locally to exploit this vulnerability. The vulnerability could not be exploited by anonymous users.
Description: Revision Note: V1.2 (June 9, 2010): Added information about MS10-035 and clarified a FAQ entry about the caching vector.Summary: Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a vulnerability in Internet Explorer. This advisory contains information about which versions of Internet Explorer are vulnerable as well as workarounds and mitigations for this issue.
Description: Severity Rating: Important - Revision Note: V1.0 (June 8, 2010): Bulletin published.Summary: This security update resolves one publicly disclosed and two privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft SharePoint. The most severe vulnerability could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker convinced a user of a targeted SharePoint site to click on a specially crafted link.
Description: Severity Rating: Important - Revision Note: V1.0 (June 8, 2010): Bulletin published.Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in the Windows OpenType Compact Font Format (CFF) driver. The vulnerability could allow elevation of privilege if a user views content rendered in a specially crafted CFF font. An attacker must have valid logon credentials and be able to log on locally to exploit this vulnerability. The vulnerability could not be exploited remotely or by anonymous users.
Description: Severity Rating: Critical - Revision Note: V1.0 (June 8, 2010): Bulletin published.Summary: This security update addresses two privately reported vulnerabilities for Microsoft software. This security update is rated Critical for all supported editions of Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7, and Moderate for all supported editions of Windows Server 2003, Windows Server2008, and Windows Server 2008 R2. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted Web page that instantiates a specific ActiveX control with Internet Explorer. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights. This update also includes kill bits for four third-party ActiveX controls.
Description: Severity Rating: Important - Revision Note: V1.0 (June 8, 2010): Bulletin published.Summary: This security update resolves two publicly disclosed vulnerabilities and one privately reported vulnerability in the Windows kernel-mode drivers. The vulnerabilities could allow elevation of privilege if a user views content rendered in a specially crafted TrueType font.
Description: Detailing the differences between DirectAccess and VPN.
Description: Since current email communication is clear text, how do we protect against eves droppers?
Description: Some tips and tricks that can be used to better dig the information that you need out of the security log; contributing towards the overall security of your network.
Description: GFI LANguard was selected the winner in the Patch Management category of the WindowSecurity.com Readers' Choice Awards. Ecora Patch Manager and WinINSTALL were runner-up and second runner-up respectively.
Description: Chris Sanders reviews ObserveIT's software package, designed to record and audit remote desktop and Citrix sessions.
Description: Taking a look at the security mechanisms built into RDS; how to use Group Policy and configuration settings for better security.
Description: Useful techniques for troubleshooting wireless security issues at the packet level.
Description: Taking a deep dive into Event Viewer.
