I discovered WUD for the first time last night, and I've already used it to download a very useful collection of patches for XP Pro/2000 Pro/2003 Server to use at home. Please see Here for the latest update lists. Microsoft will release the security updates on April 8.I've just updated the ULs to include current patches, and have attached them in a post further down thread. “Aren’t we always told not to just automatically open everything we get?” “This sounds like a pretty interesting possible attack vector,” observed Storms. Because SharePoint Server runs a service called “Word Automation Services,” which automatically opens documents in several formats, including RTF, it could also be exploited, potentially spreading attack code throughout a company. “Then, no question - apply that Word fix pronto.”īulletin 1, the update that will patch Word, will also affect SharePoint Server 2010 and SharePoint Server 2013, the collaboration software many enterprises have deployed to support Office. “It’s almost always ‘IE first,’” he said. He recommended that Microsoft customers apply the IE update as soon as possible. “I have no insight or good guesses as to what about IE10 makes it special,” he said. Storms didn’t have any ideas on why IE10 was not affected. Although newer code is often immune from bugs in older software, the fact that the older IE6, IE7, IE8 and IE9 will be patched, and the newest browser, IE11, will be too, was unusual. The other critical update will patch all supported versions of IE except for IE10, which launched in 2012 with Windows 8, but was also pushed to Windows 7 users in February 2013. Office 2003, which debuted in October 2003, will be retired from support next Tuesday along with Windows XP. “Leaving a known zero-day bug in the wild would have been bad news.” “Since the bug affected Office 2003 and it, like XP, goes EOL next week, they pretty much were required to issue the patch,” said Storms. Microsoft has rated the Word update as critical.Īll versions of Word - Word 2003, Word 2007, Word 2013 and Word 2013 RT on Windows, and Word 2011 on OS X - will be patched next week to quash the bug. Take Pwn2Own for example: We almost never see a bunch of IE bugs get squashed the month before.”Īlso on next week’s slate: A fix for the Word vulnerability that Microsoft confirmed March 24 is being exploited in the wild using malformed rich text format (RTF) documents. It’s not like Microsoft to sit on a bunch of known bugs for a long time and release them all on an arbitrary date. “One of those being the hallucination that we would see a dump truck full of last-minute XP patches next week. “I think a lot of people have made much ado about nothing regarding the end of life for XP,” said Storms in an interview conducted via instant messaging. The small number of fixes for XP on the eve of its retirement did not surprise Andrew Storms, director of DevOps at San Francisco-based security vendor CloudPassage. One of the quartet will directly affect Windows XP - all versions of Windows, actually, including the newest, Windows 8.1 - while another will also impact the 13-year-old OS because it will patch all editions of Internet Explorer, including IE6, which faces retirement, too, and IE8, the most popular Microsoft browser for XP. Microsoft often downgrades remote code flaws to the important category when there are mitigating factors - say, a requirement that users click through multiple warnings or deviate from a standard configuration - that prevent easy exploitation. Of the four updates, two were tagged “critical,” Microsoft’s most serious threat rating, and the other pair was marked “important,” the next step down in the firm’s four-part scoring system.Īll four, however, were labelled in the advance notification with the phrase “remote code execution,” meaning that attackers could hijack an unpatched PC if they managed to exploit the vulnerabilities. Microsoft has said it will ship four security updates to customers next week (7 April) that will include the final public fixes for flaws in Windows XP and Office 2003, both slated for retirement from security support on Tuesday 8 April.
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