April Black Tuesday Overview
Overview of the April 2009 Microsoft patches and their status.
# | Affected | Contra Indications | Known Exploits | Microsoft rating | ISC rating(*) | |
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MS09-009 | Multiple memory corruption vulnerabilities allow random code execution. Also affect Excel viewer and Mac OS X versions of Microsoft Office. Replaces MS08-074. |
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Excel CVE-2009-0100 CVE-2009-0238 |
KB 968557 |
Actively exploited |
Severity:Critical Exploitability:2,1 |
PATCH NOW | Important | |
MS09-010 | Multiple vulnerabilities allow random code execution Replaces MS04-027. |
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Wordpad & office converters CVE-2008-4841 CVE-2009-0087 CVE-2009-0088 CVE-2009-0235 |
KB 960477 | Actively exploited. CVE-2008-4841 was SA960906 |
Severity:Critical Exploitability:1,2,1,1 |
PATCH NOW | Important | |
MS09-011 | MJPEG (don't confuse with mpeg) input validation error allows random code execution Replaces MS08-033. |
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DirectX CVE-2009-0084 |
KB 961373 | No publicly known exploits | Severity:Critical Exploitability:2 |
Critical | Important | |
MS09-012 | Multiple vulnerabilities allow privilege escalation and random code execution. Affects servers with IIS and SQLserver installed and more. Replaces MS07-022, MS08-002 and MS08-064. |
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Windows CVE-2008-1436 CVE-2009-0078 CVE-2009-0079 CVE-2009-0080 |
KB 959454 | Actively exploited, exploit code publicly available. | Severity:Important Exploitability:1,1,1,1 |
Important | Critical (**) |
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MS09-013 | Multiple vulnerabilities allow random code execution, spoofing of https certificates and NTLM credential reflection. Related to MS09-014 (below). |
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HTTP services CVE-2009-0086 CVE-2009-0089 CVE-2009-0550 |
KB 960803 | Exploit is publicly known. | Severity:Critical Exploitability:1,1,1 |
Critical | Important | |
MS09-014 | Cumulative MSIE patch. Replaces MS08-073, MS08-078 and MS09-002. Related to MS09-10, MS09-013 (above) and MS09-15 (below). |
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IE CVE-2008-2540 CVE-2009-0550 CVE-2009-0551 CVE-2009-0552 CVE-2009-0553 CVE-2009-0554 |
KB 963027 | Exploit code publicly available | Severity:Critical Exploitability:3,1,2,3,3,1 |
PATCH NOW | Important | |
MS09-015 | Update to make the system search for libraries first in the system directory by default and an API to change the order. Replaces MS07-035. Related to MS09-014 (above). |
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SearchPath CVE-2008-2540 |
KB 959426 | Attack method publicly known SA953818
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Severity:Moderate Exploitability:2 |
Imporant | Important | |
MS09-016 | Multiple input validation vulnerabilities allow a DoS and XSS. | |||||
ISA server CVE-2009-0077 CVE-2009-0237 |
KB 961759 |
CVE-2009-0077 is publicly known. |
Severity:Important Exploitability:3,3 |
N/A | Critical |
We will update issues on this page for about a week or so as they evolve.
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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
(**): For shared IIS installations: upgrade this rating to PATCH NOW
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Swa Frantzen -- Section 66
Comments
Jason
Apr 14th 2009
1 decade ago