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MS10-017 - Important: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Excel Could Allow Remote Code Execution (980150)
Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update resolves seven privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Excel. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Excel 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.
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:00:00 GMT
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MS10-016 - Important: Vulnerability in Windows Movie Maker Could Allow Remote Code Execution (975561)
Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update addresses a privately reported vulnerability in Windows Movie Maker and Microsoft Producer 2003. Windows Live Movie Maker, which is available for Windows Vista and Windows 7, is not affected by this vulnerability. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if an attacker sent a specially crafted Movie Maker or Microsoft Producer project file and persuaded the user to open the specially crafted file. 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.
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:00:00 GMT
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MS10-015 - Important: Vulnerabilities in Windows Kernel Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (977165)
Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update resolves one publicly disclosed and one privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerabilities could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker logged on to the system and then ran a specially crafted application. To exploit either vulnerability, an attacker must have valid logon credentials and be able to log on locally. The vulnerabilities could not be exploited remotely or by anonymous users.
Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:00:00 GMT
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MS10-014 - Important: Vulnerability in Kerberos Could Allow Denial of Service (977290)
Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow denial of service if a specially crafted ticket renewal request is sent to the Windows Kerberos domain from an authenticated user on a trusted non-Windows Kerberos realm. The denial of service could persist until the domain controller is restarted.
Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:00:00 GMT
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MS10-013 - Critical: Vulnerability in Microsoft DirectShow Could Allow Remote Code Execution (977935)
Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft DirectShow. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user opened a specially crafted AVI file. 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.
Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:00:00 GMT
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MS10-012 - Important: Vulnerabilities in SMB Server Could Allow Remote Code Execution (971468)
Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update resolves several privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows. The most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if an attacker created a specially crafted SMB packet and sent the packet to an affected system. Firewall best practices and standard default firewall configurations can help protect networks from attacks originating outside the enterprise perimeter that would attempt to exploit these vulnerabilities.
Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:00:00 GMT
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MS10-011 - Important: Vulnerability in Windows Client/Server Run-time Subsystem Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (978037)
Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Client/Server Run-time Subsystem (CSRSS). The vulnerability could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker logs on to the system and starts a specially crafted application designed to continue running after the attacker logs out. An attacker must have valid logon credentials and be able to log on locally to exploit this vulnerability. The vulnerability could not be exploited by anonymous users.
Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:00:00 GMT
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MS10-010 - Important: Vulnerability in Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Could Allow Denial of Service (977894)
Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V. The vulnerability could allow denial of service if a malformed sequence of machine instructions is run by an authenticated user in one of the guest virtual machines hosted by the Hyper-V server. An attacker must have valid logon credentials and be able to log on locally into a guest virtual machine to exploit this vulnerability. The vulnerability could not be exploited remotely or by anonymous users.
Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:00:00 GMT
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MS10-009 - Critical: Vulnerabilities in Windows TCP/IP Could Allow Remote Code Execution (974145)
Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This security update resolves four privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows. The most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if specially crafted packets are sent to a computer with IPv6 enabled. An attacker could try to exploit the vulnerability by creating specially crafted ICMPv6 packets and sending the packets to a system with IPv6 enabled. This vulnerability may only be exploited if the attacker is on-link.
Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:00:00 GMT
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MS10-008 - Critical: Cumulative Security Update of ActiveX Kill Bits (978262)
Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This security update addresses a privately reported vulnerability for Microsoft software. This security update is rated Critical for all supported editions of Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows XP, Important for all supported editions of Windows Vista and Windows 7, Moderate for all supported editions of Windows Server 2003, and Low for all supported editions of Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:00:00 GMT
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MS10-007 - Critical: Vulnerability in Windows Shell Handler Could Allow Remote Code Execution (975713)
Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003. Other versions of Windows are not impacted by this security update. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if an application, such as a Web browser, passes specially crafted data to the ShellExecute API function through the Windows Shell Handler.
Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:00:00 GMT
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MS10-006 - Critical: Vulnerabilities in SMB Client Could Allow Remote Code Execution (978251)
Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This security update resolves two privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if an attacker sent a specially crafted SMB response to a client-initiated SMB request. To exploit these vulnerabilities, an attacker must convince the user to initiate an SMB connection to a malicious SMB server.
Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:00:00 GMT
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MS10-005 - Moderate: Vulnerability in Microsoft Paint Could Allow Remote Code Execution (978706)
Bulletin Severity Rating:Moderate - This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Paint. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user viewed a specially crafted JPEG image file using Microsoft Paint. 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.
Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:00:00 GMT
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MS10-004 - Important: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office PowerPoint Could Allow Remote Code Execution (975416)
Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update resolves six privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office PowerPoint. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted PowerPoint file. 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.
Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:00:00 GMT
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MS10-003 - Important: Vulnerability in Microsoft Office (MSO) Could Allow Remote Code Execution (978214)
Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Office that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Office file. 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.
Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:00:00 GMT
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MS10-002 - Critical: Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (978207)
Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This security update resolves seven privately reported vulnerabilities and one publicly disclosed vulnerability in Internet Explorer. The more severe vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted Web page using Internet Explorer. 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.
Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:00:00 GMT
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MS10-001 - Critical: Vulnerability in the Embedded OpenType Font Engine Could Allow Remote Code Execution (972270)
Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user viewed content rendered in a specially crafted Embedded OpenType (EOT) font in client applications that can render EOT fonts, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office PowerPoint, or Microsoft Office Word. 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.
Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:00:00 GMT
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MS09-074 - Critical: Vulnerability in Microsoft Office Project Could Allow Remote Code Execution (967183)
Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Office Project. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Project file. 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.
Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:00:00 GMT
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Mobile phone allows boss to snoop
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Facebook calls for 'iconic games'
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File-sharing sanctions 'unfair'
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Hard drive evolution could hit XP
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Porn net domain name plan revived
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Banking fraud 'moves to internet'
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Games migrate to the social side
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Internet access 'a human right'
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US eases sanctions for freer web
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Skynet satellite system extended
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Facebook death 'lessons to learn'
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Weak questions put e-mail at risk
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Drug scam hijacks college sites
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Mobile phones learn to lip read
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Open society and open systems
Openness must be defended, says Bill Thompson.
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The past is the future for tech
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The media and the message
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