The missing Microsoft patches

Vulnerabilites that are widely known and/or actively exploited are of great interest to our readers, here we try to keep an overview of them

Affected	Known Exploits	Impact	Known since	ISC rating(*)
Affected	Known Exploits	Impact	Known since	clients	servers
Office 2004 vulnerabilities (Mac version) Unspecified vulnerabilites fixed in a accidentally released patch.	Patch has been withdrawn after being exposed to the public and replaced by a patch without the security fixes. MSRC blog #1 MSRC blog #2	unknown	Dec 12th, 2006	unknown	unknown
Word unspecified vulnerability #3 CVE-2006-6561	Publicly available exploit. MSRC blog	Remote code execution	Dec 12th, 2006	Critical	Important
Word unspecified vulnerability #2 CVE-2006-6456	MSRC blog #1 MSRC blog #2 Used in targeted attacks	Remote code execution	Dec 10th, 2006	Critical	Important
Word unspecified vulnerability #1 CVE-2006-5994	Microsoft Security Advisory 929433 MSRC blog Used in targeted attacks	Remote code execution	Dec 5th, 2006	Critical	Important
RPC in Windows 2004 SP4 UPnP and SPOOLS CVE-2006-6296 CVE-2006-3644	Multiple publicly available exploits.	DoS	Nov 16th, 2006	Less Urgent	Important
ADODB.Connection ActiveX CVE-2006-5559	MSRC blog Publicly available exploit.	DoS	Oct 24th, 2006	Less Urgent	Less Urgent
Microsoft Windows NAT Helper Components CVE-2006-5614	Publicly available exploit.	DoS	Oct 20th, 2006	Less Urgent	Important
PowerPoint 2003 CVE-2006-5296	MSRC blog #1 MSRC blog #2 Publicly available exploit.	DoS	Oct 20th, 2006	Less Urgent	Less Urgent
Server Service memory corruption	Publicly available exploit.	Remote code execution?	Jul 19th, 2006	unknown	unkown

We will update issues on this page as they evolve.
We appreciate updates

(*): ISC rating

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 leaisure 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-caserole.
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.

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Swa Frantzen -- Section 66

Swa

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Dec 20th 2006
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