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Severity Rating: Critical Revision Note: V1.0 (August 12, 2014): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Microsoft Office file that...

Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (August 12, 2014): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft OneNote. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a specially crafted file is opened in an affected version...

Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (August 12, 2014): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves one privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint Server. An authenticated attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could use a specially crafted...

Original release date: January 13, 2014 | Last revised: February 05, 2014 Systems Affected NTP servers Overview A Network Time Protocol (NTP) Amplification attack is an emerging form of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) that relies on the use of publically accessible NTP servers to...

Severity Rating: Critical Revision Note: V2.0 (January 14, 2014): Rereleased bulletin to announce the reoffering of the 2862330 update to systems running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. See the Update FAQ for details. Summary: This security update resolves seven privately reported...

Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (December 10, 2013): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Windows. The vulnerability could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker sends a specially crafted LPC port message to any LPC...

Revision Note: V1.0 (November 27, 2013): Advisory published. Summary: Microsoft is investigating new reports of a vulnerability in a kernel component of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. We are aware of limited, targeted attacks that attempt to exploit this vulnerability. Continue reading...

Severity Rating: Critical Revision Note: V1.0 (August 13, 2013): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in the Unicode Scripts Processor included in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user viewed a...

Severity Rating: Critical Revision Note: V1.0 (July 9, 2013): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves two publicly disclosed and six privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows. The most severe vulnerability could allow remote code execution...

Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.2 (June 18, 2013): Bulletin revised to announce a detection change in the security update for 2839229 to address the known issue documented in Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 2839229. This is a detection change only. Customers who have...

Original release date: June 18, 2013 | Last revised: June 19, 2013 Systems Affected Any system using Oracle Java including JDK and JRE 7 Update 21 and earlier JDK and JRE 6 Update 45 and earlier JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 45 and earlier JavaFX 2.2.21 and earlier Website owners that host...

Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.1 (June 12, 2013): Updated the Known Issues entry in the Knowledge Base Article section from "None" to "Yes". Summary: This security update resolves one privately reported vulnerability in Windows Kernel. The vulnerability could...

Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (June 11, 2013): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves one privately reported vulnerability in Windows Kernel. The vulnerability could allow information disclosure if an attacker logs on to a system and...

Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (May 14, 2013): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves eleven privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user open a specially crafted...

Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (May 14, 2013): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Windows Writer. The vulnerability could allow information disclosure if a user opens Writer using a specially...

Revision Note: V1.0 (May 3, 2013): Advisory published. Summary: Microsoft is investigating public reports of a vulnerability in Internet Explorer 8. Microsoft is aware of attacks that attempt to exploit this vulnerability. More...

As my career in security response has grown over the years, I am often reminded of the words of Italian author Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa, who stated, “If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.” There are some things that we wish to...

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Original release date: March 05, 2013 Systems Affected Any system using Oracle Java 7, 6, 5 (1.7, 1.6, 1.5) including Java Platform Standard Edition 7 (Java SE 7) Java Platform Standard Edition 6 (Java SE 6) Java Platform Standard Edition 6 (Java SE 5) Java SE Development Kit (JDK...

Original release date: January 10, 2013 | Last revised: February 06, 2013 Systems Affected Any system using Oracle Java 7 (1.7, 1.7.0) including Java Platform Standard Edition 7 (Java SE 7) Java SE Development Kit (JDK 7) Java SE Runtime Environment (JRE 7) OpenJDK 7 and 7u IcedTea...