February Black Tuesday Overview

Published: 2008-02-12
Last Updated: 2008-02-15 01:51:27 UTC
by Swa Frantzen (Version: 4)
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Overview of the February 2008 Microsoft patches and their status.

# Affected Contra Indications Known Exploits Microsoft rating ISC rating(*)
clients servers
MS08-003 Vulnerability in Active Directory allows Denial of Service.
Replaces MS07-039.
Active Directory

CVE-2008-0088

KB 946538

No publicly known exploits Important Important Important
MS08-004 Vulnerability in Windows TCP/IP allows Denial of Service
Replaces MS08-001.
TCP/IP Stack

CVE-2008-0084
KB 946456
No publicly known exploits Important Important Less urgent
MS08-005 Vulnerability in IIS Handling File Change Notifications  allows Privilege Elevation
IIS

CVE-2008-0074
KB 942831
No publicly known exploits Important Important Critical(**)
MS08-006 Vulnerability in IIS Handling of HTML-encoded ASP Web Pages allows Remote Code Execution
Replaces MS06-034.
IIS

CVE-2008-0075
KB 942830
Update: Detailed discussion and DoS exploit made public. Important Important Critical(***)
MS08-007 Vulnerability in WebDAV Mini-Redirector allows Remote Code Execution
WebDAV

CVE-2008-0080
KB 946026
Update: Exploit instructions public Critical Critical Important
MS08-008 Vulnerability in Microsoft OLE allows Remote Code Execution
Update: Replaces MS07-043
OLE

CVE-2007-0065
KB 943055
No publicly known exploits Critical Critical Important
MS08-009 Vulnerability in Microsoft Word Could allows Remote Code Execution.
Replaces Replaces MS07-060 and Replaces MS07-024.
Word

CVE-2008-0109
KB 947077
No publicly known exploits Critical Critical Important
MS08-010 Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer
Replaces MS07-069.
IE

CVE-2008-0076
CVE-2008-0077
CVE-2008-0078
CVE-2007-4790
KB 944533
Exploit publicly available Critical PATCH NOW Important
MS08-011 Multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft Works File Converter allow Remote Code Execution
Works

CVE-2007-0216
CVE-2008-0105
CVE-2008-0108
KB 947081
Update: Exploit publicly available Important Critical Important
MS08-012 Multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Publisher  allow Remote Code Execution.
Replaces MS06-054.
Office Publisher

CVE-2008-0102
CVE-2008-0104
KB 947085
No publicly known exploits Critical Critical Important
MS08-013 Vulnerability in Microsoft Office allows Remote Code Execution.
Replaces MS06-047 and MS07-060.
Office

CVE-2008-0103
KB 947108
No publicly known exploits Critical Critical Important

 

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
(*): 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.

(**): Mainly due to shared webservers being very affected by this

(***): Mainly due to classic ASP being used on many web servers like shared hosting providers

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Swa Frantzen -- Gorilla Security

Keywords: mspatchday
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Stormworms spammy love notes

Published: 2008-02-12
Last Updated: 2008-02-13 18:59:43 UTC
by donald smith (Version: 5)
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We received several reports of spam containing  Subject lines such as: “Sweetest Things Aren’t Things!, Valentine’s Day, The Love Train” and other similar subject lines. These all included a URL that just an IP Address. Those URLs lead to binaries named valentine.exe. The MD5 on the binaries is  changing rapidly so AV detection based on MD5 or other hash values is not reliable.

We submitted one version to virustotal. 12/31 of the av engines there recognized it. Valentine.exe is a new version of storm worm. Thanks to contributors Doug, Colin, Susan.

Update: The URLs are now being hosted on fast flux style hosting. Domains seen so far include destroythemoon.com and moonstarfood.com.  Subject lines now also include "I Love You, Rockin' Valentine, You Stay in My Heart, My Heart For You, A hearty WIsh, and Thinking of U All Day". I am sure we will see other subject lines.

 

Jose Nazario of Arbornetworks has some additional about this at:  http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2008/02/new-storm-valentines-day-campaign/

File valentine.exe received on 02.12.2008 17:28:57 (CET)

Antivirus Version Last Update Result
AntiVir 7.6.0.65 2008.02.12 Worm/Zhelatin.pb
BitDefender 7.2 2008.02.12 Trojan.Peed.IWX
DrWeb 4.44.0.09170 2008.02.12 Trojan.Packed.357
eSafe 7.0.15.0 2008.02.11 Suspicious File
Kaspersky 7.0.0.125 2008.02.12 Packed.Win32.Tibs.ic
Microsoft 1.3204 2008.02.12 TrojanDropper:Win32/Nuwar.gen!B
NOD32v2 2868 2008.02.12 probably a variant of Win32/Nuwar.Gen
Prevx1 V2 2008.02.12 Stormy:All Strains-All Variants
Sophos 4.26.0 2008.02.12 W32/Dorf-AW
Symantec 10 2008.02.12 Trojan.Peacomm
VirusBuster 4.3.26:9 2008.02.12 Trojan.DR.Tibs.Gen!Pac.142
Webwasher-Gateway 6.6.2 2008.02.12 Worm.Zhelatin.pb

Additional information:

File size 119296 bytes
MD5 4e6951fffca1e210e4b9bb24e708b74f
SHA1 a7a8a9796146cd77c287a8d82958ff5456fa8d24
PEiD MinGW GCC 3.x
Prevx info http://info.prevx.com/aboutprogramtext.asp?PX5=471C3E5C00B5389FD25A012AD815B300221371E2
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Apple security update 2008-001 and 10.5.2 upgrade

Published: 2008-02-12
Last Updated: 2008-02-12 01:22:32 UTC
by Swa Frantzen (Version: 1)
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Apple released today a Security Update 2008-001 for MacOS X 10.4 fixing 5 vulnerabilities in one patch.

At the same time an upgrade to Mac OS X 10.5.2 was released, which also incorporates the security update all in one package (fixing 8 vulnerabilities). An upgrade like this can be best compared to a Service Pack in the windows world. It's not just a security fix, but also a functionality upgrade.

As always, Apple packages security fixes into one big patch. Software update will offer it to your mac users that haven't turned the feature off.

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RIM Blackberry outage

Published: 2008-02-12
Last Updated: 2008-02-12 00:16:47 UTC
by Stephen Hall (Version: 1)
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A number of readers have contacted us about the current RIM Blackberry outage. It would appear that this is affecting a large number of Blackberry users in the US.  Although this is not a security posting, we do understand that a lot of security and system admin staff are attached to their Blackberry so its time to hold together fellow admins until the e-mails start flowing.

There is a useful RSS newsfeed about the Blackberry service here:  feeds.feedburner.com/Bb-outage

 

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