The November 2010 Microsoft Security Bulletins are released

imageIt's the second Tuesday of the month which means it's time for our regular cycle of monthly security updates.  Today we're releasing three security bulletins that address 11 vulnerabilities. One of the bulletins has a Critical severity rating whereas the other two are rated as Important:

  • MS10-087 This bulletin resolves five issues affecting all currently supported Microsoft Office products. The bulletin is rated Critical for Office 2007 and Office 2010 due to a preview pane vector in Outlook that could trigger the vulnerability when a customer views a specially crafted malicious RTF (Rich Text Format) file. The update also addresses an Office vector for the vulnerability described in Security Advisory 2269637, which has been referred to as "DLL Preloading" and "Binary planting." MS10-087 is Microsoft's top priority bulletin for deployment in November and has an Exploitability Index rating of 1.
  • MS10-088 This bulletin resolves two cooperatively disclosed vulnerabilities in Microsoft PowerPoint that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted PowerPoint file. The overall severity rating is Important due to the user interaction required to open the malicious file and we give the bulletin a rating of 2 in our deployment priority assessment.
  • MS10-089 This bulletin resolves four cooperatively disclosed vulnerabilities in Unified Access Gateway (UAG), which is a component of Microsoft Forefront. The most significant of these could allow elevation of privilege if a user clicks on a malicious link on a website. This update is offered through the Microsoft Download Center and is not available through Microsoft Update at this time. With an overall severity rating of Important and user interaction required to exploit, we also give this a deployment priority of 2.

Note that we're not currently aware of any active attacks seeking to exploit the vulnerabilities addressed in this month's release.

For all the details see The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC)

J.C. Hornbeck | System Center Knowledge Engineer

The App-V Team blog: https://blogs.technet.com/appv/
The WSUS Support Team blog: https://blogs.technet.com/sus/
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The ConfigMgr Support Team blog: https://blogs.technet.com/configurationmgr/
The SCOM 2007 Support Team blog: https://blogs.technet.com/operationsmgr/
The SCVMM Team blog: https://blogs.technet.com/scvmm/
The MED-V Team blog: https://blogs.technet.com/medv/
The DPM Team blog: https://blogs.technet.com/dpm/
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