[infoshare] Microsoft To Issue Seven Security Patches On Tuesday
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- Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 03:49:23 -0400
Microsoft To Issue Seven Security Patches On Tuesday
Three security bulletins affect Office, while two affect Windows. Exchange
is affected by one bulletin as is Microsoft BizTalk business-process
management
server and Capicom, a Microsoft ActiveX control.
By
Larry Greenemeier
InformationWeek
May 3, 2007 04:00 PM
Microsoft customers can look forward to seven security bulletins, some of
them
critical
, affecting Windows, Office, and Exchange as well as Capicom and BizTalk as
part of next week's Patch Tuesday ritual.
Microsoft said Thursday that next week it will also provide an update to its
Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool. In addition, the company plans to
release one high-priority non-security update on Windows Update as well as
six high-priority non-security updates through Microsoft Update.
Three security bulletins slated for Patch Tuesday affect Office, while two
affect Windows. Exchange is affected by one bulletin as is Microsoft BizTalk
business-process management
server
and Capicom, a Microsoft ActiveX control that can be used to enable the
digital signing of data with a smart card or software key, the verification
of
digitally signed data, and the graphical display of certificate information,
among other security functions.
The patches related to Microsoft Office should prove the most interesting of
an otherwise routine Patch Tuesday experience, said Johannes Ullrich, chief
research officer at the SANS Institute and chief technology officer for the
Internet Storm Center. While BizTalk affects relatively few Microsoft
customers,
it's an important system and those using it will have a keen interest in
that patch.
Microsoft said it hasn't discovered any new information pertaining to
mid-April reports of an attack exploiting a
vulnerability in the Domain Name System Server Service
in Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Service Pack 4, Windows Server 2003
Service Pack 1, and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2.
Microsoft has thus far learned that the attempts to exploit this
vulnerability could allow an attacker to run code in the security context of
the Domain
Name System Server Service. The company a few weeks ago had been seeing new
attacks by the
Win32/Siveras bot family
to exploit the vulnerability. Windows Live Safety Scanner and Windows Live
OneCare can be used to detect currently known malware types trying to
exploit
the vulnerability.
The Windows DNS Server's problem has been ongoing and centers on a flaw that
leaves the system exposed to buffer overflows and a problem with the
system's
design that doesn't require users to authenticate before being given
permission to make changes to DNS Server information, Ullrich said.
"Disabling this
feature is a fairly solid workaround, although it also disables some of the
system's management features."
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