Microsoft Security Bulletin: February 2013 Release!

Welcome to the February 2013 security bulletin release! This month we have quite a few updates to consider in your environments so make sure you pay close attention to these updates this month.

Bulletin Information

Bulletin ID	Bulletin Title and Executive Summary	Maximum Severity Rating and Vulnerability Impact	Restart Requirement	Affected Software
MS13-009	Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (2792100) This security update resolves thirteen 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 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
MS13-010	Vulnerability in Vector Markup Language Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2797052) This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in the Microsoft implementation of Vector Markup Language (VML). The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user viewed a specially crafted webpage 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.	Critical Remote Code Execution	May require restart	Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer
MS13-011	Vulnerability in Media Decompression Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2780091) This security update resolves one publicly disclosed vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted media file (such as an .mpg file), opens a Microsoft Office document (such as a .ppt file) that contains a specially crafted embedded media file, or receives specially crafted streaming content. 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
MS13-012	Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2809279) This security update resolves publicly disclosed vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server. The most severe vulnerability is in Microsoft Exchange Server WebReady Document Viewing, and could allow remote code execution in the security context of the transcoding service on the Exchange server if a user previews a specially crafted file using Outlook Web App (OWA). The transcoding service in Exchange that is used for WebReady Document Viewing is running in the LocalService account. The LocalService account has minimum privileges on the local computer and presents anonymous credentials on the network.	Critical Remote Code Execution	May require restart	Microsoft Server Software
MS13-020	Vulnerability in OLE Automation Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2802968) This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) Automation. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted file. An attacker who successfully exploited the 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	Requires restart	Microsoft Windows
MS13-013	Vulnerabilities in FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint Parsing Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2784242) This security update resolves publicly disclosed vulnerabilities in Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution in the security context of a user account with a restricted token. FAST Search Server for SharePoint is only affected by this issue when Advanced Filter Pack is enabled. By default, Advanced Filter Pack is disabled.	Important Remote Code Execution	May require restart	Microsoft Office, Microsoft Server Software
MS13-014	Vulnerability in NFS Server Could Allow Denial of Service (2790978) This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow denial of service if an attacker attempts a file operation on a read only share. An attacker who exploited this vulnerability could cause the affected system to stop responding and restart. The vulnerability only affects Windows servers with the NFS role enabled.	Important Denial of Service	Requires restart	Microsoft Windows
MS13-015	Vulnerability in .NET Framework Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (2800277) This security update resolves one privately reported vulnerabilityin the .NET Framework. The vulnerability could allow elevation of privilege if a user views a specially crafted webpage using a web browser that can run XAML Browser Applications (XBAPs). The vulnerability could also be used by Windows .NET applications to bypass Code Access Security (CAS) restrictions. An attacker who successfully exploited the 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.	Important Elevation of Privilege	May require restart	Microsoft Windows, Microsoft .NET Framework
MS13-016	Vulnerabilities in Windows Kernel-Mode Driver Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (2778344) This security update resolves 30 privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerabilities could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker logs on to the system and runs a specially crafted application. An attacker must have valid logon credentials and be able to log on locally to exploit the vulnerabilities.	Important Elevation of Privilege	Requires restart	Microsoft Windows
MS13-017	Vulnerabilities in Windows Kernel Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (2799494) This security update resolves three privately reported vulnerabilities in all supported releases of Microsoft Windows. The vulnerabilities could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker logs on to the system and runs a specially crafted application. An attacker must have valid logon credentials and be able to log on locally to exploit the vulnerabilities.	Important Elevation of Privilege	Requires restart	Microsoft Windows
MS13-018	Vulnerability in TCP/IP Could Allow Denial of Service (2790655) This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow denial of service if an unauthenticated attacker sends a specially crafted connection termination packet to the server.	Important Denial of Service	Requires restart	Microsoft Windows
MS13-019	Vulnerability in Windows Client/Server Run-time Subsystem (CSRSS) Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (2790113) This security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker logs on to a system and runs a specially crafted application. An attacker must have valid logon credentials and be able to log on locally to exploit this vulnerability.	Important Elevation of Privilege	Requires restart	Microsoft Windows

Managing updates can sometime be a challenging part of IT administration. To help with this make sure you check out our Security Guidance for Update Management which provides you with Microsoft best practices for update management.

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