Latest Security Advisories & Notable Vulnerabilities
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.
This remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way the Bash shell handles functions. When successfully exploited, remote attackers may execute commands on the vulnerable system.
This remote code execution vulnerability exists in the parsing of function definitions in GNU Bash through 4.3 bash43-026 does not properly parse function. When exploited successfully, it may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service.
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