February 2014 Microsoft Patch Tuesday
Overview of the February 2014 Microsoft patches and their status.
# | Affected | Contra Indications - KB | Known Exploits | Microsoft rating(**) | ISC rating(*) | |
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clients | servers | |||||
MS14-005 |
Information Disclosure Vulnerability in Microsoft XML Core Services (ReplacesMS10-051 ) |
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Microsoft XML Core Services CVE-2014-0266 |
KB 2916036 | Yes. |
Severity:Important Exploitability: 3 |
Important | Important | |
MS14-006 |
IPv6 Denial of Service (ReplacesMS13-065 ) |
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TCP/IP Stack (IPv6) CVE-2014-0254 |
KB 2904659 | Yes. (vuln. known) |
Severity:Important Exploitability: 3 |
Important | Important | |
MS14-007 |
Remote Code Execution in Direct2D (Replaces ) |
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Direct2D CVE-2014-0263 |
KB 2912390 | No. |
Severity:Critical Exploitability: 1 |
Critical | Important | |
MS14-008 |
Allow Remote Code Execution in Microsoft Forefront (Replaces ) |
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Microsoft Forefront CVE-2014-0294 |
KB 2927022 | No. |
Severity:Critical Exploitability: 1 |
N/A | Critical | |
MS14-009 |
Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability in .Net Framework (Replaces MS13-052, MS11-100 ) |
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.Net Framework CVE-2014-0253 CVE-2014-0257 CVE-2014-0295 |
KB 2916607 | Yes. |
Severity:Important Exploitability: 1 |
Important | Important | |
MS14-010 |
Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (ReplacesMS13-097 ) |
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Internet Explorer CVE-2014-0267 CVE-2014-0268 CVE-2014-0269 CVE-2014-0270 CVE-2014-0271 CVE-2014-0272 CVE-2014-0273 CVE-2014-0273 CVE-2014-0274 CVE-2014-0275 CVE-2014-0276 CVE-2014-0277 CVE-2014-0278 CVE-2014-0279 CVE-2014-0280 CVE-2014-0281 CVE-2014-0283 CVE-2014-0284 CVE-2014-0285 CVE-2014-0286 CVE-2014-0287 CVE-2014-0288 CVE-2014-0289 CVE-2014-0290 CVE-2014-0293 |
KB 2909921 |
Yes (CVE-2014-0267) |
Severity:Critical Exploitability: 1 |
PATCH NOW! | Important | |
MS14-011 |
Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in VBScript Scripting (Replaces MS10-022 ) |
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VBScript CVE-2014-0271 |
KB 2928390 | No. |
Severity:Critical Exploitability: 1 |
Critical | Critical |
We will update issues on this page for about a week or so as they evolve.
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US based customers can call Microsoft for free patch related support on 1-866-PCSAFETY
(*): ISC rating
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We use 4 levels:
- PATCH NOW: Typically used where we see immediate danger of exploitation. Typical environments will want to deploy these patches ASAP. Workarounds are typically not accepted by users or are not possible. This rating is often used when typical deployments make it vulnerable and exploits are being used or easy to obtain or make.
- Critical: Anything that needs little to become "interesting" for the dark side. Best approach is to test and deploy ASAP. Workarounds can give more time to test.
- Important: Things where more testing and other measures can help.
- Less Urgent: Typically we expect the impact if left unpatched to be not that big a deal in the short term. Do not forget them however.
- The difference between the client and server rating is based on how you use the affected machine. We take into account the typical client and server deployment in the usage of the machine and the common measures people typically have in place already. Measures we presume are simple best practices for servers such as not using outlook, MSIE, word etc. to do traditional office or leisure work.
- The rating is not a risk analysis as such. It is a rating of importance of the vulnerability and the perceived or even predicted threat for affected systems. The rating does not account for the number of affected systems there are. It is for an affected system in a typical worst-case role.
- Only the organization itself is in a position to do a full risk analysis involving the presence (or lack of) affected systems, the actually implemented measures, the impact on their operation and the value of the assets involved.
- All patches released by a vendor are important enough to have a close look if you use the affected systems. There is little incentive for vendors to publicize patches that do not have some form of risk to them.
(**): The exploitability rating we show is the worst of them all due to the too large number of ratings Microsoft assigns to some of the patches.
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"Again, we will have a pretty light patch day, with only 5 bulletins, and only 2 of these bulletins are considered critical."
"Noteworthy: No Internet Explorer patches and no Office Patches. We will only see Windows Patches, a patch for .Net and a "Security Software" patch."
I see 6 Office 2010 updates released yesterday: KB2760601 KB2775360 KB2687567 KB2837595 KB2837583 KB2817369
The update: KB2862973 which is an update for deprecating MD5 certs has also now been pushed through as an important update
In total I see 17 separate updates for my Win7 machine with Office 2010 & Dot Net Framework this month.
Anonymous
Feb 12th 2014
1 decade ago
Anonymous
Feb 12th 2014
1 decade ago