Update on MS06-042 and CA Unicenter Service Desk

Published: 2006-08-18
Last Updated: 2006-08-18 20:20:00 UTC
by David Goldsmith (Version: 2)
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There was a diary yesterday from Chris about the MS06-042 vulnerability and its impact on the CA Unicenter Service Desk product.  Today we received an official statement from CA relayed to us by Ken Williams:

"Last week, CA identified problems involving Internet Explorer browser crashes after Microsoft security patch MS06-042 was installed on systems running Unicenter Service Desk. CA is currently working with Microsoft to resolve these issues. Until Microsoft re-releases updated MS06-042 patches, CA recommends that users who experience problems with MS06-042 and Unicenter Service Desk either a) use Firefox or Mozilla, or b) uninstall MS06-042 and wait for the re-release of MS06-042. The MS06-042 re-release, which is currently scheduled to be released by August 22, 2006, should fix at least two issues that could cause Internet Explorer browser crashes for Unicenter Service Desk users. Note that Unicenter Service Desk does officially support Firefox and Mozilla. When using the PDA interface, any browser that supports basic HTML should work."

You can go here for the matrix showing the updated status summary on all of the Microsoft August updates.

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Microsoft August 2006 Patches: STATUS

Published: 2006-09-11
Last Updated: 2006-09-11 23:05:04 UTC
by Swa Frantzen (Version: 13)
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Overview of the known problems and publicly known exploits ofthe August 2006 Microsoft patches.

# Known Problems with this patch
Known Exploits
client rating server rating
MS06-040 Issue with:
  • Huge memory allocations on Windows 2003 server SP1 (32bit & 64bit), XP (64bit) and 32bit application.
  • Microsoft Business Solutions?Navision 3.70 on above platform.
  • Websense Manager when using terminal services
Fix:
  • Hotfix available by calling Microsoft.
More information:
Botnets actively exploiting this in  the WILD

Exploit available in easy to use package



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MS06-041 No reported problems

Critical Critical
MS06-042 Critical issue:
  • This patch introduces a new arbitrary code execution vulnerability on MSIE 6 SP1.
Fix:
  • Microsoft re-released MS06-042 on Aug 24th 2006.
  • It is unclear if the hotfix that was available earlier fixes this problem as well.

More info:

Issue #1:
  • MSIE 6 SP1 crashes while using multiple application such as Peoplesoft, Siebel, Sage CRM and websites using HTTP 1.1 and compression such as the register.
  • Roll-up patch so it has all older issues as well.
Workaround:
  • Workaround to disable HTTP/1.1
  • Use alternate browser (for problem sites)
Fix:
  • Upgrade to MSIE 6 SP2
  • The re-release of the August 24th is intended to fix this. The fix was supposed to be published by Microsoft on August 22nd, 2006 but was delayed.
More Information:
Issue #2:
  • CA Unicenter Service Desk can cause MSIE to crash, on XP SP2 and Windows 2003 SP1
Workaround:
  • Use the supported Firefox or Mozilla browsers
  • KB923996
Fix:
  • The re-release of MS06-042 is not fixing this problem as far as we know.
More information:

Original MS06-42: fixes a.o. a  FTP vulnerability that;s well-known since 2004

First revision of the MS06-042  patch's buffer overglow has details public.
  • Microsoft released it first on the 22nd
  • actual code fragments were publicly released on the 24th after the patch was updated
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Important
MS06-043 No reported problems
Important Less urgent
MS06-044 No reported problems
Critical Critical
MS06-045 No confirmed problems
Critical Less urgent
MS06-046 No reported problems
Critical Important
MS06-047 No reported problems Trojan dropper reported in word document by Symantec, Trendmicro(1) and Trendmicro(2).  The dropper loads a backdoor: Trendmicro, Symantec

See also diary.
Critical Less urgent
MS06-048 No reported problems Trojan dropper in Powerpoint Critical Less urgent
MS06-049 Unconfirmed reports about corruption of files on compressed volumes.
[Windows 2000 only patch]

Important
Less urgent
MS06-050 No reported problems
Critical Important
MS06-051 Although unconfirmed by Microsoft so far, there seem to be problems related to Terminal Services and multiple users loading certain DLLs as part of some applications. Details and fixes or workarounds are too sketchy so far.

See also the problem with .ini files and citrix at the citrix support forum.

We're still lookign for a more detailed discription of the problems.

Critical Critical

We will update issues on this page as they evolve.
We appreciate updates
US based customers can call Microsoft for free patch related support on 1-866-PCSAFETY
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