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October Black Tuesday Overview
Published: 2008-10-14,
Last Updated: 2008-10-14 22:43:03 UTC
by Swa Frantzen (Version: 1)
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Overview of the October 2008 Microsoft patches and their status.

# Affected Contra Indications Known Exploits Microsoft rating ISC rating(*)
clients servers
MS08-056 Cross site scripting (XSS) in the way Office XP SP3 handles the dialog window for the content-disposition:download and the cdo: protocol.
Office

CVE-2008-4020		 KB 957699 No publicly known exploits Moderate Important Less Urgent
MS08-057 Multiple vulnerabilities in Excel lead to random code execution. This also affect sharepoint server.
Replaces MS08-043.
Office

CVE-2008-4019
CVE-2008-3471
CVE-2008-3477		 KB 956416 No publicly known exploits Critical Critical Critical
(**)
MS08-058 Multiple vulnerabilities in MSIE lead to random code execution and or information leaks.
Replaces MS08-045.
IE

CVE-2008-2947
CVE-2008-3472
CVE-2008-3473
CVE-2008-3474
CVE-2008-3475
CVE-2008-3476		 KB 956390 CVE-2008-2947 is publicly known Critical Critical Important
MS08-059 RPC requests can bypass authentication and lead to random code execution.
Host Integration Server (HIS)

CVE-2008-3466		 KB 956695
 No publicly known exploits Critical Important Critical
MS08-060 A buffer overflow in the LDAP services allows random code execution. LDAP over SSL is also afected.
Replaces MS08-035.
Windows active directory

CVE-2008-4023		 KB 957280 No publicly known exploits Critical N/A Critical
MS08-061 Multiple vulnerabilities in the windows kernel allow privilege escalation.
Replaces MS08-025.
Windows kernel

CVE-2008-2250
CVE-2008-2251
CVE-2008-2252		 KB 954211 No publicly known exploits Important Important Important
(***)
MS08-062 An Interger overflow in IPP allows random code execution to authenticated users.
Windows internet printing (IIS)

CVE-2008-1446		 KB 953155 Actively exploited in targeted attacks Important Less Urgent (****) Critical
MS08-063 Crafted filenames lead to random code execution in the SMB protocol.
Replaces MS06-063.
Windows file sharing

CVE-2008-4038		 KB 957095 No publicly known exploits Important Important Critical
MS08-064 An integer overflow allows privilege escalation.
Replaces MS07-066, MS07-022 and Advisory 932596.
Windows virtual address descriptor

CVE-2008-4036		 KB 956841 No publicly known exploits Important Important Important
MS08-065 An input validation failure in an RPC of MSQS allows random code execution.
Windows 2000 message queuing

CVE-2008-3479		 KB 951071 No publicly known exploits Important Important Important
MS08-066 An input validation failure allows privilege escalation.
Windows ancillary function driver

CVE-2008-3464		 KB 956803 No publicly known exploits Important important Less Urgent
(***)
Advisory
956391
 Killbits for 3rd party (Microgaming, System Requirements Lab, PhotostockPro) as well as Microsoft ActiveX controls mentioned in MS02-044, MS08-017, MS08-041 and MS08-052.
IE Active X killbits
 KB 956391   - Critical Important
We will update issues on this page for about a week or so as they evolve.
We appreciate updates
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(*): ISC rating
  • We use 4 levels:
    • PATCH NOW: Typically used where we see immediate danger of exploitation. Typical environments will want to deploy these patches ASAP. Workarounds are typically not accepted by users or are not possible. This rating is often used when typical deployments make it vulnerable and exploits are being used or easy to obtain or make.
    • Critical: Anything that needs little to become "interesting" for the dark side. Best approach is to test and deploy ASAP. Workarounds can give more time to test.
    • Important: Things where more testing and other measures can help.
    • Less Urgent: Typically we expect the impact if left unpatched to be not that big a deal in the short term. Do not forget them however.
  • The difference between the client and server rating is based on how you use the affected machine. We take into account the typical client and server deployment in the usage of the machine and the common measures people typically have in place already. Measures we presume are simple best practices for servers such as not using outlook, MSIE, word etc. to do traditional office or leisure work.
  • The rating is not a risk analysis as such. It is a rating of importance of the vulnerability and the perceived or even predicted threat for affected systems. The rating does not account for the number of affected systems there are. It is for an affected system in a typical worst-case role.
  • Only the organization itself is in a position to do a full risk analysis involving the presence (or lack of) affected systems, the actually implemented measures, the impact on their operation and the value of the assets involved.
  • All patches released by a vendor are important enough to have a close look if you use the affected systems. There is little incentive for vendors to publicize patches that do not have some form of risk to them.

(**): For sharepoint servers. Important for others.

(***): for shared servers this is most likely critical.

(****): assuming no IIS was installed.

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Swa Frantzen -- Section 66

Keywords: black tuesday MSFT patches
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