Alert - Critical Product Vulnerability - March 30, 2010 (Out-of-Band) Microsoft Security Bulletin Release
This alert is to provide you with an overview of the new security bulletin being released (out-of-band) on March 30, 2010.
New Security Bulletin
Microsoft is releasing one new security bulletin (out-of-band) for newly discovered vulnerabilities:
| Bulletin ID | Bulletin Title | Maximum Severity Rating | Vulnerability Impact | Restart Requirement | Affected Software |
| MS10-018 | Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (980182) | Critical | Remote Code Execution | Requires a restart | All supported versions of Internet Explorer on supported versions of Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008*, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 R2.* |
| * Where indicated in the Affected Software table on the bulletin Web page, the vulnerabilities addressed by this update do not affect supported editions of Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2, when installed using the Server Core installation option. Affected software listed above is an abstract. Please see the bulletin at the link in the left column for complete details. |
Microsoft will host a webcast to address customer questions on this bulletin:
Title: Information About Microsoft's March 2010 Out-of-Band Security Bulletin Release
Date: Tuesday, March 30, 2010, at 1:00 P.M. Pacific Time (U.S. & Canada).
URL: https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032448112
Public Resources related to this alert
· Security Advisory 981374 – Vulnerability in Internet Explorer Could Allow Remote Code Execution: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/981374.mspx
· Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) Blog: http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/
· Microsoft Security Research & Defense (SRD) Blog: http://blogs.technet.com/srd/
· Microsoft Malware Protection Center (MMPC) Blog: http://blogs.technet.com/mmpc/
· Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/sdl/
New Security Bulletin Technical Details
In the following tables of affected and non-affected software, software editions that are not listed are past their support lifecycle. To determine the support lifecycle for your product and edition, visit the Microsoft Support Lifecycle Web site at http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/.
| Bulletin Identifier | Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-018 |
| Bulletin Title | Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (980182) |
| Executive Summary | This security update resolves seven privately reported vulnerabilities and one publicly disclosed vulnerability in Internet Explorer. The more severe vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted Web page using Internet Explorer. The security update addresses these vulnerabilities by modifying the way that Internet Explorer handles objects in memory, validates input parameters, and filters HTML attributes. This security update also addresses the vulnerability first described in Microsoft Security Advisory 981374. |
| Affected Software | All supported versions of Internet Explorer on supported versions of Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 R2*.
* Where indicated in the Affected Software table on the bulletin Web page, the vulnerabilities addressed by this update do not affect supported editions of Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2, when installed using the Server Core installation option. Please see the bulletin Web page at the link below for more details. |
| CVE, Exploitability Index Rating | · CVE-2010-0267: Uninitialized Memory Corruption Vulnerability (EI = 3) · CVE-2010-0488: Post Encoding Information Disclosure Vulnerability (EI = 3) · CVE-2010-0489: Race Condition Memory Corruption Vulnerability (EI = 2) · CVE-2010-0490: Uninitialized Memory Corruption Vulnerability (EI = 3) · CVE-2010-0491: HTML Object Memory Corruption Vulnerability (EI = 1) · CVE-2010-0492: HTML Object Memory Corruption Vulnerability (EI = 1) · CVE-2010-0494: HTML Element Cross-Domain Vulnerability (EI = 1) · CVE-2010-0805: Memory Corruption Vulnerability (EI = 2) · CVE-2010-0806: Uninitialized Memory Corruption Vulnerability (EI = 1) · CVE-2010-0807: HTML Rendering Memory Corruption Vulnerability (EI = 1) Note: Please see the Exploitability Index table on the bulletin summary page for more details: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms10-mar.mspx |
| Attack Vectors | · A maliciously crafted Web page · A maliciously crafted HTML e-mail |
| Mitigating Factors | · Users would have to be persuaded to visit a malicious Web site. · Exploitation only gains the same user rights as the logged-on account. · By default, Outlook, Outlook Express, and Windows Mail open HTML e-mail messages in the Restricted Sites zone. · By default, IE on Windows 2003 and Windows Server 2008 runs in a restricted mode. · IE 5.01 SP4 and IE 8 are not affected by this vulnerability. |
| Restart Requirement | The update will require a restart. |
| Bulletins Replaced by This Update | MS10-002 |
| Publicly Disclosed?
Exploited? | CVE-2010-0806 has been publicly disclosed prior to release. CVE-2010-0806 has been exploited in the wild at release. |
| Full Details | http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS10-018.mspx |
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Thank you,
Microsoft CSS Security Team
Ruud de Jonge
Director Developer & Platform Evangelism of Microsoft in the Netherlands | Voice: +31-20-5001242
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