Tuesday, December 08, 2009
This month, Microsoft is releasing several non-security updates that implement Extended Protection for Authentication as a mechanism to help safeguard authentication credentials on the Windows platform. These new updates are not security bulletins, but non-security updates that allow web clients using the Windows HTTP Services, IIS web servers and applications based on the HTTP Protocol Stack (http.
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
Today we released MS08-076, which addresses two flaws in the Windows Media components: Windows Media Player, Windows Media Format Runtime, and Windows Media Services. Viewed separately, the issues are not that severe and the aggregate severity rating is Important at most. However, if the two issues are combined the impact can be quite severe, with the potential for Remote Code Execution.
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
In this part, we would like to talk more about CVE-2008-3010: ISATAP vulnerability in Windows Media components. As described in the bulletin MS08-076, Windows Media components (Windows Media Player, Windows Media Format Runtime, and Windows Media Services) treat an ISATAP server address as an intranet zone address, and thus may leak NTLM credentials.
