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, 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.
Monday, March 23, 2009
Last summer at BlackHat Vegas, Alexander Sotirov and Mark Dowd outlined several clever ways to bypass the Windows Vista defense-in-depth protection combination of DEP and ASLR in attacks targeting Internet Explorer. One approach they presented allowed attackers to use .NET framework DLL’s to allocate executable pages of memory at predictable locations within the iexplore.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Bulletin severity is an interesting topic to many blog readers. We often hear that you think a bulletin should be rated higher or lower. Sometimes we even hear one person suggesting a higher rating and another suggesting a lower rating for the same issue. J This post is not to advocate for or against the MSRC rating system but we’d just like you to understand what we were thinking for each bulletin.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
MS08-015, CVE-2008-0110, addresses a vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook’s implementation of “mailto” URI handling. The attack can be launched via IE or other applications which invoke the “mailto” protocol. Applications can register pluggable protocol handlers to handle a custom Uniform Resource Locator (URL) protocol scheme. Here “mailto” is one example of the various protocol handles that can be registered.
