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Currently Unpatched Windows / Internet Explorer Vulnerabilities

Published: 2011-01-05. Last Updated: 2011-01-08 01:58:58 UTC
by Johannes Ullrich (Version: 2)
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Update: Microsoft now created its own version of this table:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2011/01/07/assessing-the-risk-of-public-issues-currently-being-tracked-by-the-msrc.aspx

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Thanks to our reader Dan for getting this started. Here is a preliminary table on various Internet Explorer and Windows vulnerabilities that are as of yet unpatched.Let me know if I forgot one. I originally planned to include some of the older issues, but none of them appears to be as relevant/serious as the issues in this list.

CVE Name Release Date Affected Exploit and comments Mitigation
 no CVE Use after free error within "mshtml.dll" Jan 5th 2011 IE 7,8 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0026  
CVE-2010-3970 Graphics Rendering Engine Jan 4th 2011 Windows XP/VIsta (not: 7, 2008 R2) Available

Disable shimgvw.dll

MSFT Advisory #2490606

no CVE WMI ActiveX Control Dec 23rd 2010 IE with WMI ActiveX Control installed
See this Websense blog for details
set killbit on affected ActiveX control
CVE-2010-3971 CSS Import Rule Processing Use-After-Free Vulnerability Dec 14th 2010 IE 6,7,8 PoC available. Critical

Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit

MSFT Advisory #2488013

 

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Johannes B. Ullrich, Ph.D.
SANS Technology Institute
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Vuln. in IIS FTP from just before xmas:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2010/12/22/assessing-an-iis-ftp-7-5-unauthenticated-denial-of-service-vulnerability.aspx
VUPEN has a whole list of unpatched Windows vulnerabilities:

http://www.vupen.com/english/Unpatched-Microsoft-Vulnerabilities.php

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