Microsoft Patch Tuesday: November 2012

With this November Microsoft Patch Tuesday update, we see a set of 6 updates; 4 of which are marked as "Critical", 1 rated "Important" and 1 being a "Moderate" vulnerability.

The Patch Tuesday Security Update analysis was performed by the Quest ChangeBASE Patch Impact team and identified a small percentage of applications from the thousands of applications included in testing for this release which showed an Amber issue.

Of the six patches, 3 "require a restart to load correctly", and 3 "may require a restart", so it is probably best to assume all require a restart to be installed correctly

Here is a sample of the results for one package against the patch Tuesday updates:


MS12-071 - Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (2761451)

Quest\ChangeBASE RAG Status Report Summary

Security Update Detailed Summary

MS12-071	Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (2761451)
Description	This security update resolves three privately reported vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted webpage using Internet Explorer. An attacker who successfully exploited these vulnerabilities could gain the same user rights as the current user. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
Payload	Urlmon.dll, Iexplore.exe, Inetcpl.cpl, Jsproxy.dll, Wininet.dll, Wininetplugin.dll, Iedvtool.dll, Msfeeds.dll, Msfeeds.mof, Mshtmled.dll, Mshtmled.dll, Mshtml.dll, Mshtml.tlb, Ieproxy.dll, Ieshims.dll, Ieunatt.exe, Jsdbgui.dll, Iertutil.dll, Sqmapi.dll, Mshtmled.dll, Mshtml.dll, Mshtml.tlb, Ieproxy.dll, Ieshims.dll, Url.dll, Ieui.dll, Ieframe.dll, Jscript.dll, Jscript9.dll, Vbscript.dll
Impact	Critical - Remote Code Execution

MS12-072	Vulnerabilities in Windows Shell Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2727528)
Description	This security update resolves two privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user browses to a specially crafted briefcase in Windows Explorer. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run arbitrary code as the current user. If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker could take complete control of the affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
Payload	Synceng.dll, Wsynceng.dll
Impact	Critical - Remote Code Execution

MS12-073	Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) Could Allow Information Disclosure (2733829)
Description	This security update resolves one publicly disclosed vulnerability and one privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS). The more severe vulnerability could allow information disclosure if an attacker sends specially crafted FTP commands to the server.
Payload	Ftpconfigext.dll, Ftpctrlps.dll, Ftpmib.dll, Ftpres.dll, Ftpsvc.dll, Ftpsvc.mof
Impact	Moderate - Information Disclosure

MS12-074	Vulnerabilities in .NET Framework Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2745030)
Description	This security update resolves five privately reported vulnerabilities in the .NET Framework. The most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if an attacker convinces the user of a target system to use a malicious proxy auto configuration file and then injects code into the currently running application.
Payload	No Specific File Information
Impact	Critical - Remote Code Execution

MS12-075	Vulnerabilities in Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2761226)
Description	This security update resolves three privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows. The most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted document or visits a malicious webpage that embeds TrueType font files. An attacker would have to convince users to visit the website, typically by getting them to click a link in an email message that takes them to the attacker's website.
Payload	Win32k.sys
Impact	Critical - Remote Code Execution

MS12-076	Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Excel Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2720184)
Description	This security update resolves four privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Excel file with an affected version of Microsoft Excel. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerabilities could gain the same user rights as the current user. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
Payload	Excel.Exe
Impact	Important - Remote Code Execution

*All results are based on an AOK Application Compatibility Lab’s test portfolio of over 1,000 applications.