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Microsoft Patch Tuesday Brings Critical Fixes, Also for Surface By Jennifer LeClaire November 9, 2012 9:19AM     With another Microsoft Patch Tuesday on the way, we asked security and forensic analyst Paul Henry what IT admins and Windows users need to know. Expect a disruptive Patch Tuesday. "With 6 Microsoft bulletins, 4 of which are critical and some restarts required, along with a host of other issues, IT can expect a disruptive Patch Tuesday this month."   Related Topics Microsoft Windows Patch Tuesday Patch Security Surface Tablet Latest News Recharge Your Phone in 20 Seconds? Ready for Xbox: The Next Generation China Hackers Resume U.S. Attacks Samsung Dangles $800,000 App Carrot Yahoo Vows 'Not To Screw Up' Tumblr (Page 2 of 2) "If these fonts are embedded in a browser or a Word document, for example, it's rendered in the kernel mode driver and winds up becoming a kernel mode exploit. An authenticated, low-rights user could visit a Web site, the font gets rendered, and it gets rendered as 'system.' This is a very effective attack mode, so Microsoft likes to close out font issues quickly. This is as high a priority as Bulletin 1. Those two bulletins will be the two biggest attack vectors in this batch." Bulletin 2 addresses two vulnerabilities that are critical remote code executions. This is a Briefcase issue, where you have mapped drives with Briefcase, and Henry classifies it as high priority. Meanwhile, Bulletin 4 affects .Net and fixes Bulletin 5 vulnerabilities in the .Net framework. Bulletin 6 is an Excel vulnerability. "Bulletin 3 is a moderate update for IIS, which could cause concern. But this is an information disclosure issue via FTP only, so it's only a concern if you have IIS set up to provide FTP services," Henry said. "It's moderate, which typically means attackers have to authenticate to pull off the attack. And we all recognize if they can authenticate, they pretty much own the machine anyway." < Previous Page  |  1  |  2   Tell Us What You Think Comment: Name: Also Visit: iPad Info Center Billions of Bytes Mobile Device Now Apple Info Center TopTechWire.com

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