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Month Archives: March 2012

CVE-2012-0002: A closer look at MS12-020's critical issue

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Security Update MS12-020 addresses two vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). One of the two, CVE-2012-0002, is a Critical, remote code execution vulnerability affecting all versions of Windows. This blog post shares additional information with the following goals: To strongly encourage you to make a special priority of applying this particular update; To give you an option to harden your environment until the update can be applied.

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Strength, flexibility and the March 2012 security bulletins

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Hello. Today we’re releasing six security bulletins – one Critical-class, four Important and one Moderate – addressing seven issues in Microsoft Windows, Visual Studio, and Expression Design. We recommend that customers focus on MS12-020, our sole critical-class bulletin, as the March deployment priority. A little about MS12-020: MS12-020 (Windows) : This bulletin addresses one Critical-class issue and one Moderate-class issue in Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP).

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March 2012 ANS

Thursday, March 08, 2012

Hello. Today we’re releasing our advance notification for the March security bulletin release, which is scheduled for Tuesday, March 13. This month’s release includes six bulletins addressing seven vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Visual Studio, and Expression Design. As always, we recommend that customers review the ANS summary page for more information and prepare for the testing and deployment of these bulletins as soon as possible.

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