Microsoft Patch Tuesday - December 2014

Published: 2014-12-09
Last Updated: 2014-12-09 19:25:36 UTC
by Alex Stanford (Version: 1)
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Overview of the December 2014 Microsoft patches and their status.

# Affected Contra Indications - KB Known Exploits Microsoft rating(**) ISC rating(*)
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MS14-075 Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server Could Allow Elevation of Privilege
(Replaces MS13-105)
Microsoft Exchange

CVE-2014-6319
CVE-2014-6325
CVE-2014-6326
CVE-2014-6336
KB 3009712 . Severity:Important
Exploitability:
N/A Important
MS14-080 Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer
(Replaces MS14-065)
Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer
CVE-2014-6327, CVE-2014-6328, CVE-2014-6329, CVE-2014-6330, CVE-2014-6363, CVE-2014-6365, CVE-2014-6366, CVE-2014-6368, CVE-2014-6369, CVE-2014-6373, CVE-2014-6374, CVE-2014-6375, CVE-2014-6376, CVE-2014-8966
KB 3008923 . Severity:Critical
Exploitability:
Critical Critical
MS14-081 Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Word and Microsoft Office Web Apps Could Allow Remote Code Execution
(Replaces MS14-017 MS14-061 MS14-069)
Microsoft Office

CVE-2014-6356
CVE-2014-6357
KB 3017301 . Severity:Critical
Exploitability:
Critical Important
MS14-082 Vulnerability in Microsoft Office Could Allow Remote Code Execution
(Replaces MS09-060)
Microsoft Office

CVE-2014-6364
KB 3017349 . Severity:Important
Exploitability:
Critical Important
MS14-083 Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Excel Could Allow Remote Code Execution
(Replaces MS13-085)
Microsoft Office

CVE-2014-6360
CVE-2014-6361
KB 3017347 . Severity:Important
Exploitability:
Critical Important
MS14-084 Vulnerability in VBScript Scripting Engine Could Allow Remote Code Execution
(Replaces MS14-011)
Microsoft Windows

CVE-2014-6363
KB 3016711 . Severity:Critical
Exploitability:
Critical Critical
MS14-085 Vulnerability in Microsoft Graphics Component Could Allow Information Disclosure
Microsoft Windows

CVE-2014-6355
KB 3013126 vuln. public. Severity:Important
Exploitability:
Important Important
We will update issues on this page for about a week or so as they evolve.
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(*): 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 Urt 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 threatatches.

       

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Alex Stanford - GIAC GWEB & GSEC
Research Operations Manager,
SANS Internet Storm Center

Keywords: mspatchday
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ISC StormCast for Tuesday, December 9th 2014 http://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail.html?id=4267

POODLE Strikes (Bites?) Again

Published: 2014-12-09
Last Updated: 2014-12-09 01:08:26 UTC
by Johannes Ullrich (Version: 1)
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As Adam Langley notes in his blog [1], the POODLE vulnerability may be found in some implementations of TLS, not just in SSLv3.

The problem is an implementation issue, not so much a problem with the standard as in the original SSLv3 instance. The POODLE vulnerability was caused by SSLv3's use of unspecified, and unprotected use of padding. In TLS, the padding is specified, and TLS should no longer be vulnerable to the attack. However, it turns out that some implementations will not verify if the correct padding was used. An incorrect padding would go unnoticed (just like in SSLv3) and could lead to the POODLE problem.

On the other hand: We still haven't seen widespread (any?) exploitation of the POODLE vulnerability. So focus on what Microsoft has to offer first today, then take a look if you still have some outstanding "Poodles" in your network. F5 load-balancers apparently suffer from the new problem.

In addition, Heise.de notes that Kaspersky's Internet Security product, which implements a proxy on the protected host, still supports SSLv3 and may cause connections to be downgraded to SSLv3, even if the user's browser no longer supports SSLv3.

[1] https://www.imperialviolet.org 

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Johannes B. Ullrich, Ph.D.
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Keywords: poodle sslv3
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