Latest Security Advisories & Notable Vulnerabilities
This vulnerability exists in the way the Flash Player mitigates memory randomization. It exists in several versions of Adobe Flash Player installed in Windows environments.
Adobe has released security updates for Adobe Flash Player for Windows, Macintosh and Linux. These updates address vulnerabilities that could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. Adobe recommends users update their product installations to the latest versions.
- (MS15-001) Vulnerability in Windows Application Compatibility Cache Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (3023266)
Risk Rating: Important
This security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker logs on to a system and runs a specially crafted application. An authenticated attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could bypass existing permission checks that are performed during cache modification in the Microsoft Windows Application Compatibility component and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges. - (MS15-002) Vulnerability in Windows Telnet Service Could Allow Remote Code Execution (3020393)
Risk Rating: Critical
This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if an attacker sends specially crafted packets to an affected Windows server. Only customers who enable this service are vulnerable. By default, Telnet is installed but not enabled on Windows Server 2003. Telnet is not installed by default on Windows Vista and later operating systems. - (MS15-003) Vulnerability in Windows User Profile Service Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (3021674)
Risk Rating: Important
This security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker logs on to the system and runs a specially crafted application. A local attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code on a target system with elevated privileges. An attacker must have valid logon credentials and be able to log on locally to exploit the vulnerability. - (MS15-004) Vulnerability in Windows Components Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (3025421)
Risk Rating: Important
This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker convinces a user to run a specially crafted application. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the current user. If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. - (MS15-005) Vulnerability in Network Location Awareness Service Could Allow Security Feature Bypass (3022777)
Risk Rating: Important
This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow security feature bypass by unintentionally relaxing the firewall policy and/or configuration of certain services when an attacker on the same network as the victim spoofs responses to DNS and LDAP traffic initiated by the victim. - (MS15-006) Vulnerability in Windows Error Reporting Could Allow Security Feature Bypass (3004365)
Risk Rating: Important
This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Windows Error Reporting (WER). The vulnerability could allow security feature bypass if successfully exploited by an attacker. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain access to the memory of a running process. 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. - (MS15-007) Vulnerability in Network Policy Server RADIUS Implementation Could Cause Denial of Service (3014029)
Risk Rating: Important
This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow denial of service on an Internet Authentication Service (IAS) or Network Policy Server (NPS) if an attacker sends specially crafted username strings to the IAS or NPS. Note that the denial of service vulnerability would not allow an attacker to execute code or to elevate user rights; however, it could prevent RADIUS authentication on the IAS or NPS. - (MS15-008) Vulnerability in Windows Kernel-Mode Driver Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (3019215)
Risk Rating: Important
This security update resolves one privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker runs a specially crafted application on an affected system. An attacker must have valid logon credentials and be able to log on locally to exploit the vulnerability.
Microsoft addresses the following vulnerabilities in its December batch of patches:
Risk Rating: Important
This security update resolves four privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server. The most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow elevation of privilege if a user clicks a specially crafted URL that takes them to a targeted Outlook Web App site.
Risk Rating: Critical
This security update resolves fourteen privately reported vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. The most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted webpage using Internet Explorer.
Risk Rating: Critical
This security update resolves two privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Word and Microsoft Office Web Apps. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if an attacker convinces a user to open or preview a specially crafted Microsoft Word file in an affected version of Microsoft Office software.
Risk Rating: Important
This security update resolves one privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Office. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a specially crafted file is opened in an affected edition of Microsoft Office.
Risk Rating: Important
This security update resolves two privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Excel. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if an attacker convinces a user to open or preview a specially crafted Microsoft Excel file in an affected version of Microsoft Office software.
Risk Rating: Critical
This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in the VBScript scripting engine in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user visits a specially crafted website.
Risk Rating: Important
This security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow information disclosure if a user browses to a website containing specially crafted JPEG content.
This update resolves an elevation of privilege vulnerability found in the Kerberos KDC in certain Windows operating systems. The vulnerability exists in the improper validation of signatures. For an attacker to exploit the vulnerability, the attacker must have valid credentials for the domain where the vulnerable system is hosted.
In the November bulletin, MS14-068 and MS14-075 are not included. Microsoft, however, addresses the following vulnerabilities:
Risk Rating: Critical
This security update addresses vulnerabilities found existing in Microsoft Windows Object Linking and Embedding (OLE). When exploited successfully, it could allow remote code execution via specially crafted webpage using Internet Explorer, thus compromising the security of the affected systems.
Risk Rating: Critical
This security update addresses several vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. Accordingly, it can possibly lead to remote code execution once users view a specially crafted webpage via Internet Explorer.
Risk Rating: Critical
This security update addresses a vulnerability found existing in the Microsoft Secure Channel (Schannel) security package in Windows that could lead to remote code execution when exploited successfully.
Risk Rating: Critical
This security update addresses a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows that could lead to remote code execution when exploited successfully.
Risk Rating: Important
This security update addresses several vulnerabilities found in Microsoft office. Once successfully exploited, it could allow remote code execution via specially crafted file opened by the user.
Risk Rating: Important
This security update addresses a vulnerability found in TCP/IP that happened during input/output control (IOCTL) processing. When successfully exploited, it could allow elevation of privilege.
Risk Rating: Important
This security update addresses a vulnerability found in Microsoft Windows that when successfully exploited, it could allow elevation of privilege via an app that employs Microsoft Windows Audio service.
Risk Rating: Important
This security update addresses a vulnerability found existing in Microsoft .NET Framework that could allow elevation of privilege.
Risk Rating: Important
This security update addresses a vulnerability found existing in Microsoft SharePoint Server that could run random scripts when successfully exploited.
Risk Rating: Important
This security update addresses a vulnerability found existing in Microsoft Windows. Accordingly, this vulnerability can allow security bypass once RDP does not properly log audit events.
Risk Rating: Important
This security update addresses a vulnerability found existing in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) that can bypass the IP and domain restrictions" security feature once successfully exploited.
Risk Rating: Important
This security update addresses a vulnerability found existing in Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS), that could allow information disclosure once exploited successfully.
Risk Rating: Moderate
This security update addresses a vulnerability found existing in Microsoft Input Method Editor (IME) (Japanese).
Risk Rating: Moderate
This security update addresses a vulnerability found existing in Microsoft Windows that could allow denial of service.
Microsoft addresses the following vulnerabilities in its October batch of patches:
Risk Rating: Critical
This security update addresses several vulnerabilities found existing in Internet Explorer. When exploited successfully, it could allow remote code execution via specially crafted webpage, thus compromising the security of the affected systems.
Risk Rating: Critical
This security update addresses several vulnerabilities in Microsoft .NET Framework. Accordingly, it could allow remote code execution thus compromising system security.
Risk Rating: Critical
This security update addresses vulnerabilities found in Microsoft Windows. When exploited by attackers, it could allow remote code execution.
Risk Rating: Important
This security update addresses a vulnerability found in ASP.NET MVC. When exploited successfully by attackers, it could allow security feature bypass.
Risk Rating: Important
This security update addresses a vulnerability found in Microsoft Windows. Once successfully exploited, it could allow remote code execution via a Microsoft Office file containing specially crafted OLE object.
Risk Rating: Important
This security update addresses a vulnerability found in Microsoft Office. When successfully exploited via a specially crafted Microsoft Word file, it could lead to remote code execution.
Risk Rating: Important
This security update addresses a vulnerability found in Microsoft Windows that when successfully exploited, it could allow elevation of privilege.
Risk Rating: Important
This security update addresses a vulnerability found existing in Microsoft Windows, which could lead to execution of arbitrary code with elevated privileges.