Welcome to another security bulletin release. This always seems to happen when I’m travelling and presenting. I guess the demo gods like to make my life interesting!
The table below outlines this month’s updates that you need to consider in your environments.
| Bulletin ID | Bulletin Title and Executive Summary | Maximum Severity Rating and Vulnerability Impact | Restart Requirement | Affected Software |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MS13-067 | Vulnerabilities in Microsoft SharePoint Server Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2834052) This security update resolves one publicly disclosed vulnerability and nine privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Server software. The most severe vulnerability could allow remote code execution in the context of the W3WP service account if an attacker sends specially crafted content to the affected server. | Critical Remote Code Execution | May require restart | Microsoft Office, Microsoft Server Software |
| MS13-068 | Vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2756473) This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user opens or previews a specially crafted email message using an affected edition of Microsoft Outlook. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability 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. | Critical Remote Code Execution | May require restart | Microsoft Office |
| MS13-069 | Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (2870699) This security update resolves ten privately reported vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. The most severe vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted webpage using Internet Explorer. An attacker who successfully exploited the most severe of these vulnerabilities could gain the same user rights as the current 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. | Critical Remote Code Execution | Requires restart | Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer |
| MS13-070 | Vulnerability in OLE Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2876217) This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user opens a file that contains a specially crafted OLE object. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the current 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. | Critical Remote Code Execution | May require restart | Microsoft Windows |
| MS13-071 | Vulnerability in Windows Theme File Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2864063) This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user applies a specially crafted Windows theme on their system. In all cases, a user cannot be forced to open the file or apply the theme; for an attack to be successful, a user must be convinced to do so. | Important Remote Code Execution | May require restart | Microsoft Windows |
| MS13-072 | Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2845537) This security update resolves 13 privately reported vulnerabilitiesin Microsoft Office. The most severe vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a specially crafted file is opened in an affected version of Microsoft Office software. An attacker who successfully exploited the most severe vulnerabilities could gain the same user rights as the current 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. | Important Remote Code Execution | May require restart | Microsoft Office |
| MS13-073 | Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Excel Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2858300) This security update resolves three privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office. The most severe vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Office file with an affected version of Microsoft Excel or other affected Microsoft Office software. An attacker who successfully exploited the most severe vulnerabilities could gain the same user rights as the current 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. | Important Remote Code Execution | May require restart | Microsoft Office |
| MS13-074 | Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Access Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2848637) This security update resolves three privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Access file with an affected version of Microsoft Access. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerabilities could gain the same user rights as the current 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. | Important Remote Code Execution | May require restart | Microsoft Office |
| MS13-075 | Vulnerability in Microsoft Office IME (Chinese) Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (2878687) This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Office IME (Chinese). The vulnerability could allow elevation of privilege if a logged on attacker launches Internet Explorer from the toolbar in Microsoft Pinyin IME for Simplified Chinese. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code in kernel mode. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full administrative rights. Only implementations of Microsoft Pinyin IME 2010 are affected by this vulnerability. Other versions of Simplified Chinese IME and other implementations of IME are not affected. | Important Elevation of Privilege | May require restart | Microsoft Office |
| MS13-076 | Vulnerabilities in Kernel-Mode Drivers Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (2876315) This security update resolves seven privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerabilities could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker logs onto the system and runs a specially crafted application. An attacker must have valid logon credentials and be able to log on locally to exploit these vulnerabilities. | Important Elevation of Privilege | Requires restart | Microsoft Windows |
| MS13-077 | Vulnerability in Windows Service Control Manager Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (2872339) This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker convinces an authenticated user to execute a specially crafted application. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker either must have valid logon credentials and be able to log on locally or must convince a user to run the attacker's specially crafted application. | Important Elevation of Privilege | Requires restart | Microsoft Windows |
| MS13-078 | Vulnerability in FrontPage Could Allow Information Disclosure (2825621) This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft FrontPage. The vulnerability could allow information disclosure if a user opens a specially crafted FrontPage document. The vulnerability cannot be exploited automatically; for an attack to be successful a user must be convinced to open the specially crafted document. | Important Information Disclosure | May require restart | Microsoft Office |
| MS13-079 | Vulnerability in Active Directory Could Allow Denial of Service (2853587) This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Active Directory. The vulnerability could allow denial of service if an attacker sends a specially crafted query to the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) service. | Important Denial of Service | May require restart | Microsoft Windows |
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