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December 2014 Updates

Today, as part of Update Tuesday, we released seven security updates – three rated Critical and four rated Important in severity, to address 24 unique Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) in Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer (IE), Office and Exchange. We encourage you to apply all of these updates. For more information about this month’s security updates, including the detailed view of the Exploit Index (XI) broken down by each CVE, visit the Microsoft Bulletin Summary webpage.

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Security Advisory 3010060 released

Today, we released Security Advisory 3010060to provide additional protections regarding limited, targeted attacks directed at Microsoft Windows customers. A cyberattacker could cause remote code execution if someone is tricked into opening a maliciously-crafted PowerPoint document that contains an infected Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) file. As part of this Security Advisory, we have included an easy, one-click Fix itsolution to address the known cyberattack.

Assessing Risk for the October 2014 Security Updates

Today we released eight security bulletins addressing 24 unique CVE’s. Three bulletins have a maximum severity rating of Critical, and five have a maximum severity rating of Important. This table is designed to help you prioritize the deployment of updates appropriately for your environment. Bulletin Most likely attack vector Max Bulletin Severity Max exploitability Platform mitigations and key notes MS14-058(Kernel mode drivers [win32k.

The September 2014 Security Updates

Today, as a part of our regular Update Tuesday process, we released four security bulletins – one rated Critical and three rated Important in severity – to address 42 Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures (CVEs) in Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, .NET Framework, and Lync Server. We encourage you to apply all of these updates, but for those who need to prioritize, we recommend focusing on the Critical update first.

Assessing risk for the September 2014 security updates

Today we released four security bulletins addressing 42 unique CVE’s. One bulletin has a maximum severity rating of Critical and the other three have maximum severity Important. This table is designed to help you prioritize the deployment of updates appropriately for your environment. Bulletin Most likely attack vector Max Bulletin Severity Max Exploitability Index Rating Platform mitigations and key notes MS14-052(Internet Explorer) Victim browses to a malicious webpage.

CVE-2014-5110: Trixbox XSS / LFI / SQL Injection

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in user/help/html/index.php in Fonality trixbox allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the id_nodo parameter.

CVE-2014-3479: PHP: PHP 5 ChangeLog

The cdf_check_stream_offset function in cdf.c in file before 5.19, as used in the Fileinfo component in PHP before 5.4.30 and 5.5.x before 5.5.14, relies on incorrect sector-size data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted stream offset in a CDF file.

July 2014 Security Bulletin Release

Many around the globe have been following the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™ closely. Regardless of which country you are supporting, many folks have been impressed by the defensive display put on by keeper Tim Howard in a loss against Belgium. It was a great performance highlighting a strong defense – always a good thing to have, be it on the pitch or on your system.

Assessing risk for the July 2014 security updates

Today we released six security bulletins addressing 29 unique CVE’s. Two bulletins have a maximum severity rating of Critical, three have maximum severity Important, and one is Moderate. We hope that the table below helps you prioritize the deployment of the updates appropriately for your environment. Bulletin Most likely attack vector Max Bulletin Severity Max exploit-ability Likely first 30 days impact Platform mitigations and key notes MS14-037(Internet Explorer) Victim browses to a malicious webpage.

Theoretical Thinking and the June 2014 Bulletin Release

As security professionals, we are trained to think in worst-case scenarios. We run through the land of the theoretical, chasing “what if” scenarios as though they are lightning bugs to be gathered and stashed in a glass jar. Most of time, this type of thinking is absolutely the correct thing for security professionals to do.