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Tuesday, July 28, 2009 10:00 AM

Overview of the out-of-band release

Today we released Security Advisory 973882 and with it, two out-of-band security bulletins. These updates are MS09-034 (an Internet Explorer update) and MS09-035 (a Visual Studio update). At this time for customers who have applied MS09-032 we are not
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009 9:57 AM

Internet Explorer Mitigations for ATL Data Stream Vulnerabilities

IE security update MS09-034 implements two defense-in-depth measures intended to mitigate the threat of attacks which attempt to exploit the Microsoft Active Template Library (ATL) vulnerabilities described in Security Advisory 973882 and MS09-034 . We
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009 9:53 AM

ATL vulnerability developer deep dive

This morning we released MS09-035 to address ATL vulnerabilities in Visual Studio. This blog post will help you answer the following questions: What are the ATL vulnerabilities? Which versions of ATL are vulnerable? How can I tell if my ActiveX control
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009 9:50 AM

MSVIDCTL (MS09-032) and the ATL vulnerability

Today we have released Security Advisory 973882 that describes vulnerabilities in the Microsoft Active Template Library (ATL), as well as security updates for Internet Explorer ( MS09-034 ) and Visual Studio ( MS09-035 ). The Visual Studio update addresses
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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, May 28, 2009 10:21 AM

New vulnerability in quartz.dll Quicktime parsing

Recently, we found a remote code execution vulnerability in Microsoft’s DirectShow platform (quartz.dll) when processing the QuickTime format. We have released advisory 971778 providing guidance to help protect customers. We’d like to go into more detail
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008 10:50 AM

Bulletin severity for October bulletins

Bulletin severity is an interesting topic to many blog readers. We often hear that you think a bulletin should be rated higher or lower. Sometimes we even hear one person suggesting a higher rating and another suggesting a lower rating for the same issue.
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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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