HI All, Microsoft plans to ship 16 bulletins to patch 49 vulnerabilities across its product line, including Windows, Internet Explorer, Office and the .NET Framework.
The previous record number of patches was set in August, when Microsoft pushed out fixes for 34 flaws. A quarter of the 16 patches are labeled "critical", while 10 carry a less severe "important" rating and two others are listed as "moderate." There are a number of publicly known issues affecting Microsoft, namely two zero-day, privilege-escalation vulnerabilities being leveraged by Stuxnet attackers. Stuxnet is a pernicious worm that has been used to attack critical infrastructure facilities, mainly in Iran, India and Indonesia. It also is possible that some of the patches will resolve a new attack vector, involving a class of vulnerabilities, known as DLL preloading, that can be used to infect PCs when an application is tricked into loading a malicious library. In addition, Microsoft last month began investigating a data-stealing vulnerability impacting its newest web browser, Internet Explorer 8. * Here are some of them* * Vulnerability in the Embedded OpenType Font Engine Could Allow Remote Code Execution* This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in a Microsoft Windows component, the Embedded OpenType (EOT) Font Engine. * Vulnerabilities in Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers Could Allow Elevation of Privilege* This security update resolves several publicly disclosed vulnerabilities in the Windows kernel-mode drivers. The most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker logs on to an affected system and runs a specially crafted application. An attacker must have valid logon credentials and be able to log on locally to exploit this vulnerability. The vulnerability could not be exploited remotely or by anonymous users. * Vulnerability in SChannel Could Allow Denial of Service* This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in the Secure Channel (SChannel) security package in Windows. The vulnerability could allow denial of service if an affected Internet Information Services (IIS) server hosting a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)-enabled Web site received a specially crafted packet message. By default, IIS is not configured to host SSL Web sites*. * *Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer* This security update resolves seven privately reported vulnerabilities and three publicly disclosed vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. The most severe vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution *Vulnerability in Media Player Network Sharing Service Could Allow Remote Code Execution* This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows Media Player network sharing service. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if an attacker sent a specially crafted RTSP packet to an affected system. However, Internet access to home media is disabled by default. In this default configuration, the vulnerability can be exploited only by an attacker within the same subnet. * ** Vulnerability in .NET Framework Could Allow Remote Code Execution* This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft .NET Framework. vulnerability could allow remote code execution on a client system if a user views a specially crafted Web page using a Web browser that can run XAML Browser Applications (XBAPs). * Vulnerabilities in SafeHTML Could Allow Information Disclosure* This security update resolves one publicly disclosed vulnerability and one privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint and Windows SharePoint Services. The vulnerabilities could allow information disclosure if an attacker submits specially crafted script to a target site using SafeHTML. * Vulnerabilities in Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers Could Allow Elevation of Privilege* This security update resolves several publicly disclosed vulnerabilities in the Windows kernel-mode drivers. The most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker logs on to an affected system and runs a specially crafted application. An attacker must have valid logon credentials and be able to log on locally to exploit this vulnerability. The vulnerability could not be exploited remotely or by anonymous users. * Vulnerabilities in the OpenType Font (OTF) Format Driver Could Allow Elevation of Privilege* This security update resolves two privately reported vulnerabilities in the Windows OpenType Font (OTF) format driver. vulnerabilities could allow elevation of privilege if a user views content rendered in a specially crafted OpenType font. An attacker must have valid logon credentials and be able to log on locally to exploit this vulnerability. The vulnerability could not be exploited remotely or by anonymous users.This security update is rated Important for all supported editions of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. All supported editions of Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 R2 are not affected by the vulnerability. * Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Word Could Allow Remote Code Execution* This security update resolves eleven privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Word file. An attacker who successfully exploited any of these vulnerabilities could gain the same user rights as the local user. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights. * Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Excel Could Allow Remote Code Execution* This security update resolves thirteen privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Excel file or a specially crafted Lotus 1-2-3 file. An attacker who successfully exploited any of these vulnerabilities could gain the same user rights as the local user. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights. * Vulnerability in Windows Common Control Library Could Allow Remote Code Execution* This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in the Windows common control library. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user visited a specially crafted Web page. If a user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights. * Vulnerability in Windows Media Player Could Allow Remote Code Execution* This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Windows Media Player. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if Windows Media Player opened specially crafted media content hosted on a malicious Web site. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the local user. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights. * Vulnerability in COM Validation in Windows Shell and WordPad Could Allow Remote Code Execution* This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted file using WordPad or selects or opens a shortcut file that is on a network or WebDAV share. * Vulnerability in Windows Local Procedure Call Could Cause Elevation of Privilege* This security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability in Microsoft Windows.Thi vulnerability could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker logs on to an affected system and runs specially crafted code that sends an LPC message to the local LRPC Server. The message could then allow an authenticated user to access resources that are running in the context of the NetworkService account. An attacker must have valid logon credentials and be able to log on locally to exploit this vulnerability.This security update is rated Important for all supported editions of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. All supported editions of Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 R2 are not affected by the vulnerability. * Vulnerability in Microsoft Foundation Classes Could Allow Remote Code Execution* This security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability in the Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) Library. This vulnerability could allow remote code execution * Vulnerability in Windows Shared Cluster Disks Could Allow Tampering* This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Windows Server 2008 R2 when used as a shared failover cluster. The vulnerability could allow data tampering on the administrative shares of failover cluster disks. By default, Windows Server 2008 R2 servers are not affected by this vulnerability. This vulnerability only applies to the cluster disks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nforceit" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. 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