Tuesday, April 14, 2009
April is here and is turning out to be a typical, busy month, if one can call it that. In general, when we have a large release, the number of updates ranges from 7-12. With this in mind, we released eight security updates this month: 5 rated as Critical, 2 rated as Important, and one rated as Moderate.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
MS09-010 addresses vulnerabilities in Word converters used by WordPad and by Office to load files saved in old file formats. Some of you probably saw this bulletin and thought “I never open documents from versions of Word prior to Word XP,” and you may be interested in reducing your attack surface.
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
Following up on Security Advisory 953818, today we released MS09-014, rated as Moderate, which addresses aspects of the Safari Carpet Bomb vulnerability. On a Windows operating system this vulnerability allows an attacker, through Safari, to drop arbitrary files on a user’s desktop. As of Safari 3.1.2 Apple has removed this behavior from Safari.
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.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Hi Everyone, Jerry Bryant again. Here is the overview video for the April 2009 bulletins. Please join us tomorrow at 11:00 am PDT (UTC –7) for our bulletin webcast where we will cover this months updates in more detail and try to answer all of your bulletin related questions. More viewing options: - Windows Media Video (WMV) - Windows Media Audio (WMA) - Large Preview Image (PNG) - Small Preview Image (PNG) - iPod Video (MP4) - MP3 Audio - Streaming WMV (512kbps) - High Quality WMV (2.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Hello everyone, As you can see from the April 2009 release summary, we addressed the Token Kidnapping issue with bulletin MS09-012. This issue allowed an attacker to gain full control of a server if the attacker can first run malicious code on the server as a lesser privileged user. This issue was originally presented by Cesar Cerrudo in March of 2008 at Hack in the Box (Dubai) 2008.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Here I am again writing on MS BlueHat blog, this time about Token Kidnapping. The first time I talked about Token kidnapping was a long time ago and now after a year the issues detailed in the presentation are finally fixed. Let’s see what happened. Before the first public Token Kidnapping presentation I talked to MS about the topics it included, I mentioned that there were design issues and that some issues were already known.
Thursday, April 09, 2009
小野寺です。 今月は、計 8 件 (緊急 5 件, 重要 2 件, 警告 1 件) の公開を予定しています。 リリース日は、週明
