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MBSA 2.3 and the November 2013 Security Bulletin Webcast, Q&A, and Slide Deck

Friday, November 15, 2013

Today we’re publishing the November 2013 Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers page. The majority of questions focused on the ActiveX Kill Bits bulletin (MS13-090) and the advisories. We also answered a few general questions that were not specific to any of this month’s updates, but that may be of interest.

ActiveX Control issue being addressed in Update Tuesday

Monday, November 11, 2013

Late last Friday, November 8, 2013, a vulnerability, CVE-2013-3918, affecting an Internet Explorer ActiveX Control was publically disclosed. We have confirmed that this vulnerability is an issue already scheduled to be addressed in “Bulletin 3”, which will be released as MS13-090, as listed in the November Advanced Notification Service (ANS). The security update will be distributed to customers tomorrow via Windows Update at approximately 10:00 AM PDT.

August 2012 Bulletin Release

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Security Advisory 2661254 - Update For Minimum Certificate Key Length Before we get into the details of this month’s bulletin release, let’s take a look at an important change on how Windows deals with certificates that have RSA keys of less than 1024 bits in length. We’ve been talking about this subject since June, and today we are announcing the availability of an update to Windows that restricts the use of certificates with RSA keys less than 1024 bits in length with Security Advisory 2661254.

MS12-027: Enhanced protections regarding ActiveX controls in Microsoft Office documents

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Security Update MS12-027 addresses a code execution vulnerability in MSCOMCTL.OCX, the Windows Common Controls ActiveX control. By default, this component is included with all 32-bit versions of Microsoft Office. We’d like to cover the following topics in this blog post: Limited, targeted attacks leveraging this vulnerability Mitigations in recent versions of Office to reduce the risk Extra protections to block all or specific ActiveX controls in Office documents The new Office 2010 kill bit feature Limited, targeted attacks leveraging this vulnerability

June 2010 Security Bulletin Release

Tuesday, June 08, 2010

Hi everyone, Today, as part of our regular monthly security bulletin release cycle, we released 10 bulletins to address 34 total vulnerabilities in Windows, Microsoft Office (including SharePoint), Internet Explorer (IE), Internet Information Services (IIS), and the .NET Framework. Only three of these bulletins get our maximum severity rating of Critical.

February 2010 Security Bulletin Release

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

MSRC Bulletin Release Blog Post Hi everyone, As mentioned in our ANS blog post last week, today we are releasing 13 bulletins addressing 26 vulnerabilities. 11 bulletins affect Windows and 2 affect older versions of Microsoft Office. In the post on Thursday, we mentioned that bulletins in the ANS listed as 1, 2, 3, and 6 were going to top our deployment priority list this month.

October 2009 Security Bulletin Release

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Summary of Microsoft’s Security Bulletin Release for October 2009 This month, we released 13 new bulletins which address 33 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office. Since we published this information in our advance notification (ANS) last Thursday, we have been asked “is this the most bulletins Microsoft has ever released”?

August 2009 Bulletin Release

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Summary of Microsoft’s Security Bulletin Release for August 2009 Hi everyone, This month, we released nine security bulletins. Five of those are rated Critical and four have an aggregate severity rating of Important. Of the nine updates, eight affect Windows and the last one affects Office Web Components (OWC). It is also important to note that five of the six critical updates also have an Exploitability Index rating of “1” which means that we could expect there to be consistent, reliable code in the wild seeking to exploit one or more of these vulnerabilities within the first 30 days from release.

MS09-037: Why we are using CVE's already used in MS09-035

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

MS09-035 was released July 28 to address vulnerabilities in the Visual Studio Active Template Library (ATL). A related security update, MS09-034, included a defense-in-depth Internet Explorer mitigation to help protect against attacks in vulnerable components. This morning, we released security bulletin MS09-037 to addresses the ATL vulnerabilities in several Windows components.