November 2010 Microsoft Black Tuesday Summary
Overview of the November 2010 Microsoft Patches and their status.
# | Affected | Contra Indications | Known Exploits | Microsoft rating | ISC rating(*) | |
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clients | servers | |||||
MS10-087 | Vulnerabiliites in Microsoft Office code execution (Replaces MS10-003 MS10-036) | |||||
Microsoft Office CVE-2010-3333 CVE-2010-3334 CVE-2010-3335 CVE-2010-3336 CVE-2010-3337 |
KB 2423930 | exploit available. | Severity:Critical Exploitability: 1 |
Critical | Important | |
MS10-088 | Vulnerabilities in Microsoft PowerPoint code execution (Replaces MS10-004, MS10-036, MS09-017) | |||||
Microsoft Office CVE-2010-2572 CVE-2010-2573 |
KB 2293386 | . | Severity:Important Exploitability: 1 |
Critical | Important | |
MS10-089 | Vulnerabilities in Forefront Unified Access Gateway escalation of privilege | |||||
Forefront UAG CVE-2010-2732 CVE-2010-2733 CVE-2010-2734 CVE-2010-3936 |
KB 2316074 | . | Severity:Important Exploitability: 1 |
N/A | Important |
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
- 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
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Gilbert
Nov 9th 2010
1 decade ago
Gilbert
Nov 9th 2010
1 decade ago
I know the non-MS update cycles do not match the MS cycle. I wish they did, since it could mean doing all my testing once a month.
Putting the info into a single place each month (allowing for out-of-band events) would give us a centralized place to check to ensure we didn't miss something since the last Black Tuesday announcement.
A point to consider may be that there would need to be a limit to the number of products included in such a revision. If adding Adobe stuff is ok, would adding Quicktime be too much?
Perhaps a test for inclusion might be whether or not the "general population" would be affected by a specific product update. For example, how many would be affected by Acrobat updates but not care about Photoshop, AutoCAD, etc?
Anyone else have any thoughts? Myself, I am so appreciative for what ISC does as it is that I'm not going to squawk if nothing changes, but can see how this would be an improvement (at least, for me it would be.)
:)
Joel
Nov 9th 2010
1 decade ago
bikeoid
Nov 10th 2010
1 decade ago
If this is something that could be easily done and not add to the already busy work day for the handlers I would be all for it.
Thanks again to all the handlers and their continued efforts to keep us safe.
pwobbe
Nov 10th 2010
1 decade ago
Yet somehow Microsoft had the resources to patch Mac OS X Office 2011, released 16 days ago.
Rex
Nov 11th 2010
1 decade ago
BezantSoft
Nov 12th 2010
1 decade ago