Tuesday, June 09, 2009
IE8 behavior notes MS09-019 contains the fix for the IE8 vulnerability responsibly disclosed by Nils at the CanSecWest pwn2own competition (CVE-2009-1532). Nils exploited this vulnerability on an IE8 build that did allow .NET assemblies to load in the Internet Zone. The final, released build of IE8 does not allow .Net assemblies to load in the Internet Zone.
Tuesday, June 09, 2009
Today, we released MS09-023, a bulletin for Windows Search 4.0. It is an information disclosure vulnerability rated as Moderate. We would like to go into more details in this blog to help you understand: What is the attack vector? - Why is this vulnerability rated as Moderate?- What is the risk of MSHTML hosting apps?
Tuesday, June 09, 2009
Today we released bulletin MS09-024 that fixes vulnerabilities in text converters for the Microsoft Works document file format (WPS). Reduced impact if Microsoft Office is installed The Works converters included with Microsoft Word are vulnerable. However, the Microsoft Word installer does not associate the WPS file extension with Word. So a user double-clicking a WPS file attachment for the first time would see the following dialog:
Tuesday, June 09, 2009
Today we are releasing MS09-026 which fixes a vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows RPC (Remote Procedure Call) NDR20 marshalling engine. This component is responsible for preparing data to be sent over the network and then translating it back to what the server or client application uses. NDR20 is specific to 32-bit applications that use RPC to transfer data.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Recently, we found a remote code execution vulnerability in Microsoft’s DirectShow platform (quartz.dll) when processing the QuickTime format. We have released advisory 971778 providing guidance to help protect customers. We’d like to go into more detail in this blog to help you understand: Which configurations are at risk? Why is this a high risk vulnerability?
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
We have heard several questions from customers about the WebDAV authentication bypass issue on IIS. We wanted to post common questions and answers here to help anyone else who might have the same question. Question: Is Sharepoint vulnerable to the authentication bypass? Answer: No, Sharepoint is not vulnerable to this vulnerability.
Monday, May 18, 2009
Security Advisory 971492 provides official guidance about the new IIS authentication bypass vulnerability. We’d like to go into more detail in this blog to help you understand: Am I at risk? If so, what could happen? How can I protect myself? Which IIS configurations are at risk? Only a specific IIS configuration is at risk from this vulnerability.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
This morning we released MS09-012, an update to address the publicly-disclosed issue commonly referred to as Token Kidnapping (http://www.argeniss.com/research/TokenKidnapping.pdf). This vulnerability allows escalation from the Network Service account to the Local System account. Normally malicious users are not running as Network Service, except for a very few programs like IIS, where arbitrary code can be executed within a service running as Network Service.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
This month we are taking another step towards blocking NTLM reflection attacks by releasing MS09-014 for Internet Explorer and MS09-013 for Windows. This is the third update related to NTLM credential reflection we have released, and I thought it would be good to go into a bit more detail on why this update was needed, how it relates to the previous updates (MS08-068 and MS08-076), and the severity of the issue.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
We just released eight security bulletins, five of which are rated Critical on at least one platform. We built a reference table of bulletin severity rating, exploitability index rating, and attack vectors. This table is sorted first by bulletin severity, next by exploitability index rating, and then by bulletin number. We hope it helps you choose an order of bulletins to start your prioritization and testing if you can’t deploy them all out immediately.
