Latest Security Advisories & Notable Vulnerabilities
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Microsoft addresses the following vulnerabilities in its December batch of patches:
- (MS10-090) Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (2416400)
Risk Rating: Critical
This security update resolves a total of seven vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer (IE). Of these vulnerabilities, the most severe flaws could allow remote users to remotely execute malicious codes on the affected system if a user views a specially crafted Web page via IE. Read more here. - (MS10-091) Vulnerabilities in the OpenType Font (OTF) Driver Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2296199)
Risk Rating: Critical
This security update resolves several vulnerabilities in the Windows Open Type Font (OTF) driver, which could allow remote users to execute code remotely on the affected system. Read more here. - (MS10-092) Vulnerability in Task Scheduler Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (2305420)
Risk Rating: Important
This security update resolves a vulnerability in Windows Task Scheduler, which could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker is logged on to an affected system and runs a specially crafted application. Read more here. - (MS10-093) Vulnerability in Windows Movie Maker Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2424434)
Risk Rating: Important
This vulnerability resolves a vulnerability in Windows Movie Maker, which could allow remote users to execute code on the affected system. Read more here. - (MS10-094) Vulnerability in Windows Media Encoder Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2447961)
Risk Rating: Important
This update resolves a vulnerability in Windows Media Encoder, which could allow remote code execution if an attacker succeeds in convincing users to open a legitimate Windows Media Profile (.PRX) file that is located in the same network folder as a specially crafted library file. Read more here. - (MS10-095) Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2385678)
Risk Rating: Important
This update resolves a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows, which could allow remote code execution if users open certain files located in the same network folder as a specially crafted library file. Read more here. - (MS10-096) Vulnerability in Windows Address Book Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2423089)
Risk Rating: Important
This security update resolves a vulnerability in Windows Address Book, which could allow a remote user to execute code on the affected system. Read more here. - (MS10-097) Insecure Library Loading in Internet Connection Signup Wizard Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2443105)
Risk Rating: Important
This update resolves a vulnerability in the Internet Connection Signup Wizard of Microsoft Windows, which could allow remote code execution. This exploit works if a user opens an .INS or .ISP file located in the same network folder as a specially crafted library file. Read more here. - (MS10-098) Vulnerabilities in Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (2436673)
Risk Rating: Important
This update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, which could allow elevation of privilege. The exploit works if an attacker is logged on locally using valid logon credentials and runs a specially crafted application. Read more here. - (MS10-099) Vulnerability in Routing and Remote Access Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (2440591)
Risk Rating: Important
This update resolves a vulnerability in the Routing and Remote Access NDProxy component of Microsoft Windows.This update resolves a vulnerability in the Routing and Remote Access NDProxy component of Microsoft Windows. Read more here. - (MS10-100) Vulnerability in Consent User Interface Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (2442962)
Risk Rating: Important
This update resolves a vulnerability in the Consent User Interface (UI), which could allow elevation of privilege. Read more here. - (MS10-101) Vulnerability in Windows Netlogon Service Could Allow Denial of Service (2207559)
Risk Rating: Important
This update resolves a vulnerability in the Netlogon RPC Service on affected versions of Windows Server that are configured to serve as domain controllers. Read more here. - (MS10-102) Vulnerability in Hyper-V Could Allow Denial of Service (2345316)
Risk Rating: Important
This update resolves a vulnerability in Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V. An attacker with valid logon credentials could exploit the vulnerability and allow denial of service. Read more here. - (MS10-103) Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Publisher Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2292970)
Risk Rating: Important
This update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Publisher that could allow remote code execution. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability by opening a specially crafted Publisher file. Read more here. - (MS10-104) Vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2455005)
Risk Rating: Important
This update resolves a vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint, which could allow remote code execution. The vulnerability is exploited if an attacker sends a specially crafted SOAP request to the Document Conversions Launcher Service in a SharePoint server environment that is using the Document Conversions Load Balancer Service. Read more here. - (MS10-105) Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Graphics Filters Could Allow for Remote Code Execution (968095)
Risk Rating: Important
This update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office, which could allow remote code execution. When users view a specially crafted image file using Microsoft Office, an attacker could gain the same user rights as the local user. Read more here. - (MS10-106) Vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange Server Could Allow Denial of Service (2407132)
Risk Rating: Medium
This update resolves a vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange Server, which could allow denial of service on the affected system. Read more here.
Microsoft addresses the following vulnerabilities in its November batch of patches:
- (MS10-087) Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2423930)
Risk Rating: Critical
This security update addresses vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office that could allow remote execution when an unsuspecting user opens a specially crafted .RTF email message. Read more here. - (MS10-088) Vulnerabilities in Microsoft PowerPoint Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2293386)
Risk Rating: Important
This update resolves two vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office that could allow a malicious user to execute code remotely when users open a specially crafted PowerPoint file. Read more here. - (MS10-089) Vulnerabilities in Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (2316074)
Risk Rating: Important
This security update resolves four vulnerabilities in Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG). Read more here.
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Microsoft addresses the following vulnerabilities in its October batch of patches:
- (MS10-071) Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (2360131)
Risk Rating: CriticalThis security update addresses vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer that could allow remote code execution once a user views a specially crafted Web page using Internet Explorer.
User with administrative rights are more affected by this vulnerability than those with fewer rights on the system. Read more here. - (MS10-072) Vulnerabilities in SafeHTML Could Allow Information Disclosure (2412048)
Risk Rating: ImportantThis security update addresses vulnerabilities in Microsoft SharePoint and Windows SharePoint Services. If successfully exploited via a specially crafted script to a target site using SafeHTML, it could lead to information disclosure. Read more here.
- (MS10-073) Vulnerabilities in Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (981957)
Risk Rating: ImportantThis security update addresses vulnerabilities in Windows kernel-mode drivers that could increase in the privilege when an attacker is log on and is running a specially crafted application. To be able to exploit this vulnerability, the attacker must be log on locally as this could not be done remotely. Read more here.
- (MS10-074) Vulnerability in Microsoft Foundation Classes Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2387149)
Risk Rating: CriticalThis security update addresses a vulnerability in the Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) Library that could allow remote code execution if a user is logged on with administrative user rights and opens an application built with the MFC Library. Read more here.
- (MS10-075) Vulnerability in Media Player Network Sharing Service Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2281679)
Risk Rating: CriticalThis security update addresses the vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service that could allow remote code execution once an attacker sends a specially crafted RTSP packet to an affected system. Read more here.
- (MS10-076) Vulnerability in the Embedded OpenType Font Engine Could Allow Remote Code Execution (982132)
Risk Rating: CriticalThis security update addresses the vulnerability in the Embedded OpenType (EOT) Font Engine (a Microsoft Windows component) that could allow remote code execution. If successfully exploited, the attacker could remotely access the affected user system. Read more here.
- (MS10-077) Vulnerability in .NET Framework Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2160841)
Risk Rating: CriticalThis security update addresses a vulnerability in Microsoft .NET Framework. Once a user views a specially crafted Web page via a Web browser that can run XAML Browser Applications (XBAPs), this could allow remote code execution. Moreover, it could also allow remte code execution on a server system running IIS when an attacker uploads a specially crafted ASP.NET page to that server as well as allow the processing of ASP.NET pages. Read more here.
- (MS10-078) Vulnerabilities in the OpenType Font (OTF) Format Driver Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (2279986)
Risk Rating: ImportantThis security update addresses vulnerabilities in the Windows OpenType Font (OTF) format driver that could allow elevation of privilege once a user views content rendered in a specially crafted OpenType font.
This vulnerability could only be exploited when the attacker is log on locally and not remotely. Read more here. - (MS10-079) Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Word Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2293194)
Risk Rating: ImportantThis security update addresses 11 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Word file.
Once an attacker successfully exploited any of these vulnerabilities, he gains user rights to the system. Read more here. - (MS10-080) Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Excel Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2293211)
Risk Rating: ImportantThis security update addresses thirteen vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office. More specifically, it resolves issues that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Excel file or a specially crafted Lotus 1-2-3 file. Read more here.
- (MS10-081) Vulnerability in Windows Common Control Library Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2296011)
Risk Rating:ImportantThis security update addresses a vulnerability in the Windows common control library that could allow remote code execution if a user visited a specially crafted Web page. Read more here.
- (MS10-082) Vulnerability in Windows Media Player Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2378111)
Risk Rating:ImportantThis security update addresses a vulnerability in Windows Media Player that could allow remote code execution if Windows Media Player opened specially crafted media content hosted on a malicious Web site. Read more here.
- (MS10-083) Vulnerability in COM Validation in Windows Shell and WordPad Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2405882)
Risk Rating:ImportantThis security update addresses a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted file using WordPad or selects or opens a shortcut file that is on a network or WebDAV share. Read more here.
- (MS10-084) Vulnerability in Windows Local Procedure Call Could Cause Elevation of Privilege (2360937)
Risk Rating: ImportantThis security update addresses a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows that could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker logs on to an affected system and runs specially crafted code that sends an LPC message to the local LRPC Server. The message could then allow an authenticated user to access resources that are running in the context of the NetworkService account. Read more here.
- (MS10-085) Vulnerability in SChannel Could Allow Denial of Service (2207566)
Risk Rating:ImportantThis security update addresses a vulnerability in the Secure Channel (SChannel) security package in Windows that could allow denial of service if an affected Internet Information Services (IIS) server hosting a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)-enabled Web site received a specially crafted packet message. By default, IIS is not configured to host SSL Web sites. Read more here.
- (MS10-086) Vulnerability in Windows Shared Cluster Disks Could Allow Tampering (2294255)
Risk Rating: ModerateThis security update addresses a vulnerability in Windows Server 2008 R2 when used as a shared failover cluster. More specifically, this vulnerability could allow data tampering on the administrative shares of failover cluster disks. Read more here.
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Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 SP1, 2.0 SP1 and SP2, 3.5, 3.5 SP1, 3.5.1, and 4.0, as used for ASP.NET in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS), provides detailed error codes during decryption attempts, which allows remote attackers to decrypt and modify encrypted View State (aka __VIEWSTATE) form data, and possibly forge cookies or read application files, via a padding oracle attack, aka "ASP.NET Padding Oracle Vulnerability."
Microsoft addresses the following vulnerabilities in its September batch of patches:
(MS10-061) Vulnerability in Print Spooler Service Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2347290)
Risk Rating: Critical
This security update addresses a vulnerability in the Print Spooler service. Once successfully exploited, this could result to remote code execution when an attacker sends a specially crafted print request to a system with a print spooler interface exposed over RPC. Read more here.
(MS10-062) Vulnerability in MPEG-4 Codec Could Allow Remote Code Execution (975558)
Risk Rating: Critical
This security update addresses vulnerability in MPEG-4 codec that when exploited could give an attacker user rights as the user. Read more here.
(MS10-063) Vulnerability in Unicode Scripts Processor Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2320113)
Risk Rating: Critical
This security update addresses a vulnerabillity in the Unicode Scripts Processor. Read more here.
(MS10-064) Vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2315011)
Risk Rating: Critical
This security update addresses a vulnerability that could allow remote code execution once a user opened a specially crafted email message via an affected version of Microsoft Outlook. Read more here.
(MS10-065) Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2267960)
Risk Rating: Important
This security update addresses vulnerability in Internet Information Services (IIS) that could allow remote code execution once a sends a specially crafted HTTP request to the server. Read more here.
(MS10-066) Vulnerability in Remote Procedure Call Could Allow Remote Code Execution (982802)
Risk Rating: Important
This security update addresses a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. When successfully exploited, it could execute arbitrary code and take full control of an affected system. Read more here.
(MS10-067) Vulnerability in WordPad Text Converters Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2259922)
Risk Rating: Important
This security update addresses a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows that could allow remote code execution if a user opened a specially crafted file using WordPad. Read more here.
(MS10-068) Vulnerability in Local Security Authority Subsystem Service Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (983539)
Risk Rating: Important
This security update addresses a vulnerability in Active Directory, Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM), and Active Directory Lightweight Directory Service (AD LDS). Read more here.
(MS10-069) Vulnerability in Windows Client/Server Runtime Subsystem Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (2121546)
Risk Rating: Important
This security update addresses a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. Once exploited, it could elevate the privilege of an attacker who is logged on to an affected system configure with a Chinese, Japanese, or Korean system. Read more here.