Since the release we have received several great questions regarding MS08-067 (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-067.mspx), thus we decided to compile answers for them. We still want to encourage everyone to apply the update.
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Today Microsoft released a security update that fixes a remote code execution vulnerability in the Windows Server Service. This is a serious vulnerability and we have seen targeted attacks using this vulnerability to compromise fully-patched Windows XP…
MS08-061 addresses several vulnerabilities in win32k.sys where you can execute arbitrary code in kernel mode. These bugs can only be exploited locally and there is no remote vector based on our investigation of the vulnerability.
One of these vulnerabi…
Bulletin severity is an interesting topic to many blog readers. We often hear that you think a bulletin should be rated higher or lower. Sometimes we even hear one person suggesting a higher rating and another suggesting a lower rating for the same iss…
Today, we released MS08-065 to fix an issue in MSMQ. You’ll notice that the bulletin was rated “Important” and indicates that remote code execution is possible. However, we would like to show you that in practice the severity of the fixed issue is limi…
Microsoft Host Integration Server 2006 is an interesting product. It allows developers to manage business processes on IBM mainframe and AS/400 (big iron) servers as XML web services. You can find a free trial version available for download at http://w…
The driver afd.sys is responsible for handling socket connections. MS08-066 addresses several vulnerabilities in afd.sys that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code in kernel mode. These vulnerabilities can only be exploited locally and ther…
The past few days, we have had service isolation on our minds here in Redmond after the POC code posting last week from Cesar Cerrudo. Nazim Lala from the IIS team posted a great blog entry about the fix and why it is taking so long to release it. I ex…
You may have noticed that the MS08-052 bulletin has a workaround that’s a little different than you’re probably used to seeing in our bulletins. That’s because gdiplus.dll, on all OSes after Windows 2000, is stored in something called the Windows Side …
One of our blogging goals is to give you a peek “behind the scenes” into our security response process. We thought you might be interested in the story behind MS08-055, this month’s OneNote bulletin.
In March, a security researcher sent in a repo…
