Microsoft Patch Tuesday 2012-12-11

MS12-077
Title Internet Explorer Cumulative Patch
Replaces MS12-063, MS12-071
Affected Internet Explorer 9/10
KB KB2761465
Known Exploits No
Microsoft Rating Critical
ISC Client Rating Critical
ISC Server Rating Critical
CVE Exploitability
2012-2545 1
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MS12-078
Title Windows Kernel Mode Drivers Remote Execution
Replaces MS12-032, MS12-075
Affected Kernel mode drivers
KB KB2783534
Known Exploits No
Microsoft Rating Critical
ISC Client Rating Critical
ISC Server Rating Critical
CVE Exploitability
2012-2556 1
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MS12-079
Title Microsoft Word RTF Data Remote Code Execution
Replaces MS12-064
Affected Word
KB KB2780642
Known Exploits No
Microsoft Rating Critical
ISC Client Rating Critical
ISC Server Rating Critical
CVE Exploitability
2012-2539 1
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MS12-080
Title Windows Exchange Server Remote Code Execution
Replaces MS12-058
Affected Exchange Server
KB KB2784126
Known Exploits Yes
Microsoft Rating Critical
ISC Client Rating N/A
ISC Server Rating N/A
CVE Exploitability
2012-3214 1
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MS12-081
Title Windows File Handling Remote Code Execution
Replaces MS70-35, MS11-063
Affected Windows
KB KB2758857
Known Exploits No
Microsoft Rating Critical
ISC Client Rating Critical
ISC Server Rating Critical
CVE Exploitability
2012-4774 1
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MS12-082
Title DirectPlay Remote Code Execution
Replaces
Affected DirectPlay
KB KB2770660
Known Exploits No
Microsoft Rating Important
ISC Client Rating Critical
ISC Server Rating Critical
CVE Exploitability
2012-1537 1
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MS12-083
Title IP-HTTPS Security Feature Bypass
Replaces
Affected Direct Access
KB KB2765809
Known Exploits No
Microsoft Rating Important
ISC Client Rating Important
ISC Server Rating Important
CVE Exploitability
2012-2549 1
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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: 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.