September 2008 Black Tuesday Overview

Overview of the September 2008 Microsoft patches and their status.

#	Affected	Contra Indications	Known Exploits	Microsoft rating	ISC rating(*)
#	Affected	Contra Indications	Known Exploits	Microsoft rating	clients	servers
MS08-052	Multiple vulnerabilities in GDI+: VML heap buffer overflow, EMF memory corruption, GIF parsing, WMF buffer overflow, BMP header overflow. Impact is code execution. GDI+ is used by -among many others- Internet Explorer and Office to draw images. Replaces MS08-040 and MS04-028.
MS08-052	GDI+ CVE-2007-5348 CVE-2008-3012 CVE-2008-3013 CVE-2008-3014 CVE-2008-3015	KB 954593	No publicly known exploits	Critical	Critical	Important
MS08-053	Windows media encoder installs an ActiveX control maked safe for scripting, but it was never intended to be used by Internet Explorer.
MS08-053	Windows media encoder CVE-2008-3008	KB 954156	No publicly known exploits	Critical	Critical	Important
MS08-054	Windows media Player 11 input validation error in handling server side playlists. impact: code execution.
MS08-054	Windows media player 11 CVE-2008-2253	KB 954154	No publicly known exploits	Critical	Critical	Important
MS08-055	Lack of input validation in the URL validator for the OneNote protocol. The impact is code execution. Replaces MS07-025 and MS08-016. Email and web based attack vectors exist.
MS08-055	Office CVE-2008-3007	KB 955047	No publicly known exploits	Critical	Critical	Important

We will update issues on this page for about a week or so as they evolve.
We appreciate updates
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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 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.

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Swa Frantzen -- Section 66

Swa

760 Posts

Sep 9th 2008

I just applied these updates to my XP SP3 laptop. While it was sitting on the "reboot" screen, a Windows File Protection dialog box popped up and said that "C:\Windows\ServicePackFiles\i386\gdiplus.man" was not available to restore and that I need to insert "KB938464 Source Files" now.

I canceled out of the Windows File Protection dialog box and rebooted. The event log shows an Event ID 36 Source: SideBySide:

The assembly x86_Microsoft.Windows.GdiPlus_6595b64144ccf1df_1.0.2600.5581_x-ww_dfbc4fc4 has missing or invalid files; recovery of this assembly failed.

The laptop still seems to work...

Anonymous

SidebySide error means a problem with a DLL. In this case, there probably was an installation error for the GDI+ patch. Run the Windows XP System Restore back to before you installed the updates then try them again. I'm running XP SP3 and the update ran smooth.

Anonymous