Patch Tuesday for Microsoft
Microsoft’s June Security Advance Notification Microsoft is planning to release ten bulletins addressing 34 vulnerabilities on Tuesday, June 8th. The bulletins are rated as follows: 3 “Critical” and 7 “Important”. The affected software includes: Windows, Microsoft Office, and Internet Explorer. Additionally, Microsoft plans to address the issues highlighted in Security Advisories 983438 and 980088. We [...]
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April Patches and Updates
1. Denial of Service Conditions in Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft SMTP Service (MS10-024 CVE-2010-0024) Microsoft Windows SMTP Service and Microsoft Exchange are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the improper handling of DNS Mail Exchanger (MX) resource records by the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol component. As SMTP services are often exposed to the [...]
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Microsoft
As a reminder, Microsoft is planning to release two security bulletins today, March 9, 2010. Both bulletins carry a maximum severity rating of important and the issues addressed could lead to remote code execution. The first bulletin applies to various versions of Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 and is rated as important for all [...]
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Microsoft MS10-015 BSOD Issue
Microsoft has acknowledged that there is an issue when applying the update related to advisory MS10-015 on systems that are infected with certain malware strains including one called “Tidserv”. These infected systems have a high likelihood of becoming unbootable displaying a PAGE_FAULT “Blue Screen of Death” (BSOD) error. Microsoft has issued directions on how to [...]
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February
Microsoft Advance Notification for February The assessment was updated yesterday to note that Microsoft has released their Advance Notification for February Security Bulletins. On Tuesday, February 9, Microsoft plans on releasing a total of thirteen Security Bulletins: five “critical”, seven “important”, and one “moderate”. These bulletins will address a total of twenty-six vulnerabilities across Windows [...]
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MS10-002
Microsoft has released MS10-002 today. The update addresses 7 privately reported and 1 publicly reported vulnerability which is associated with the widely publicized attacks associated with Security Advisory 979352. There are four (4) Uninitialized Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities, two (2) HTML Object Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities, one (1) XSS Filter Script Handling Vulnerability, and one (1) URL [...]
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