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5 New Critical Updates For XP

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  • 14-07-2004 9:40pm
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    Mr. Fancypants
    Registered Users Posts: 1,894 ✭✭✭


    5 New updates for XP available at www.windowsupdate.com.

    1 for Outlook Express
    1 for Background Intelligent Transfer Service
    3 Security updates for XP


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    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 91,807 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms04-jul.mspx
    July 04

    There are critical updates for all supported versions of windows except for NT4 - it's updates are "only" important


    • MS04-024: Vulnerability in Windows Shell Could Allow Remote Code Execution (839645)
    A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that the Windows Shell launches applications. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability.
    • MS04-023: Vulnerability in HTML Help Could Allow Code Execution (840315)
    Two remote code execution vulnerabilities exist in HTML Help. (sigh)
    • MS04-022: Vulnerability in Task Scheduler Could Allow Code Execution (841873)

    A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the Task Scheduler because of the way that it handles application name validation. (input validation.)
    • MS04-021: Security Update for IIS 4.0 (841373)
    A buffer overrun vulnerability exists in Internet Information Server 4.0. (Oh that's a suprise ..not)
    • MS04-020: Vulnerability in POSIX Could Allow Code Execution (841872)
    A privilege elevation vulnerability exists in the POSIX subsystem. (does anyone use POSIX anymore in windows - can remember being recommended to disable it back in the 90's)
    • MS04-019: Vulnerability in Utility Manager Could Allow Code Execution (842526)
    A privilege elevation vulnerability exists in the way that Utility Manager launches applications
    • MS04-018: Cumulative Security Update for Outlook Express (823353)
    - Denial of Service = Moderate
    A denial of service vulnerability exists that could allow an attacker to send a specially crafted e-mail message causing Outlook Express to fail. (as opposed to failing in normal use)


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