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Tuesday, August 11, 2009 9:42 AM

MS09-037: Why we are using CVE's already used in MS09-035

MS09-035 was released July 28 to address vulnerabilities in the Visual Studio Active Template Library (ATL). A related security update, MS09-034 , included a defense-in-depth Internet Explorer mitigation to help protect against attacks in vulnerable components.
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Monday, July 13, 2009 4:55 AM

More information about the Office Web Components ActiveX vulnerability

We are aware of public attacks on the Internet exploiting a vulnerability in the Office Web Components Spreadsheet ActiveX control (OWC 10 and OWC11). Microsoft has released an advisory with further information available here . What’s the attacking vector?
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Monday, July 06, 2009 10:42 AM

New vulnerability in MPEG2TuneRequest ActiveX Control Object in msvidctl.dll

We are aware of active attacks exploiting a remote code execution vulnerability in Microsoft’s MPEG2TuneRequest ActiveX Control Object. We have released advisory 972890 providing guidance to help our customers stay protected. In this blog post, we’d like
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Thursday, April 02, 2009 3:34 PM

The MSHTML Host Security FAQ: Part I of II

MSHTML, a.k.a. Trident, is the Internet Explorer browser rendering engine. MSHTML is a great solution for rendering HTML content, either in the context of a web browser, or simply to display rich UI in an application. You are likely not even aware of
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Tuesday, March 03, 2009 10:36 AM

Behavior of ActiveX controls embedded in Office documents

The Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc) have built-in ActiveX control support. ActiveX support allows a richer experience when interacting with an Office document. For example, a document author could use the Safe-For-Initialization
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008 11:35 AM

MS08-050 : Locking an ActiveX control to specific applications.

MS08-050 concerns an ActiveX control that can be maliciously scripted to leak out personal information such as email addresses. There appeared to be no need for the control to have this behaviour so giving it a Kill-Bit seemed the correct approach to
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008 11:30 AM

MS08-041 : The Microsoft Access Snapshot Viewer ActiveX control

MS08-041 fixes a vulnerability in the Microsoft Access Snapshot Viewer ActiveX control. It’s an interesting vulnerability so we wanted to go into more detail about platforms at reduced risk and also more about the servicing strategy for this vulnerability.
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Thursday, June 05, 2008 10:00 AM

Why there won't be a security update for WkImgSrv.dll

Recently, there was a public post in milw0rm ( http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/5530 ), talking about an issue in the ActiveX control of Microsoft Works 7 WkImgSrv.dll. The PoC claims that it would achieve remote code execution. McAfee Avert Labs Blog
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Wednesday, April 09, 2008 9:01 AM

MS08-023: Same bug, four different security bulletin ratings

Security bulletin MS08-023 addressed two ActiveX control vulnerabilities, one in a Visual Studio ActiveX control and another in a Yahoo!’s Music Jukebox ActiveX control. The security update sets the killbit for both controls. For more about how the killbit
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Friday, February 08, 2008 9:20 AM

The Kill-Bit FAQ: Part 3 of 3

It is very common for Microsoft security bulletins to include “Kill-Bits” to disable individual ActiveX controls / COM objects. Here is the final part of our three-part Kill-Bit FAQ. The Kill-Bit FAQ – Part 3 of 3 Are there issues that could complicate
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Thursday, February 07, 2008 4:00 AM

The Kill-Bit FAQ: Part 2 of 3

It is very common for Microsoft security bulletins to include “Kill-Bits” to disable individual ActiveX controls / COM objects. Here is the second part of our three-part Kill-Bit FAQ. The Kill-Bit FAQ – Part 2 of 3 How do ActiveX Controls, OLE Controls,
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Wednesday, February 06, 2008 5:32 AM

The Kill-Bit FAQ: Part 1 of 3

It is very common for Microsoft security bulletins to include “Kill-Bits” to disable individual ActiveX controls / COM objects. Here is the first part of a three-part FAQ we have developed to answer some questions around the Kill-Bit and related functionality.
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Sunday, February 03, 2008 11:17 PM

Not safe = not dangerous? How to tell if ActiveX vulnerabilities are exploitable in Internet Explorer

In early January you may have read posts on security distribution lists regarding two ActiveX Controls released by Microsoft. We have investigated those controls and fortunately, they are not exploitable since IE does not treat them as being safe. We
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