Security update release cycle leads to attack release cycle.
With the monthly ‘Patch Tuesday’ issue of security updates over, the now customary revelations of further vulnerabilities has begun, with attackers giving their creations as much time as possible to take effect before any fix is likely.
After some six separate holes in
Windows
and other
Microsoft
products were
covered by Tuesday’s release
, including updates to patches for the serious animated cursor flaw for which
new exploits continue to emerge
, several new vulnerabilities have emerged, although some remain somewhat nebulous. Several reports were issued yesterday, including code carried on cracker sites, of
new vulnerabilities in
Word
, to add to several still remaining unpatched after several months. The latest flaws affect
Word 2007
, and are thought capable of causing the product, and possibly the system, to crash, and possibly in some cases to allow remote code execution.
More seriously, flaws in
Microsoft
‘s DNS service could be used to remotely hijack vulnerable machines, thanks to an overflow issue in the RPC control interface. Users of the service are advised to disable RPC management; an advisory from
Microsoft
is
here
, and a
Secunia
alert is
here
.
Posted on 13 April 2007 by
Virus Bulletin
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