Today Microsoft released a security advisory (961509) regarding collisions in MD5 hashes on certificates. This specific problem affects the entire industry and is not a Microsoft specific vulnerability. Serious weaknesses in MD5 have been known for man…
On Christmas Day, the MSRC opened a case tracking a Bugtraq-posted POC describing a “malformed WAV,SND,MID file which can lead to a remote integer overflow”. By Saturday evening, we saw reputable internet sources claiming this bug could lead to executi…
Security Advisory 961040 provides mitigations and workarounds for a newly-public post-authentication heap buffer overrun in SQL Server, MSDE, and SQL Express. This blog post goes into more detail about the attack surface for each affected version and t…
Today Microsoft revised the Workarounds section of Security Advisory 961051. We wanted to share more detail about the vulnerability and explain the additional workarounds here to help you protect your computers.
Information about the vulnerability
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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 i…
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 Servi…
Today Microsoft released a security update, MS08-075, that fixes a vulnerability in Windows Explorer in Vista and Server 2008 that was exposed through the search-ms protocol handler. This is a remote unauthenticated vulnerability that requires user int…
