Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Internet Explorer, Kodak Image Viewer, Outlook Express, Windows Mail and SharePoint

2007-10-09

Synopsis:

The Sourcefire VRT is aware of multiple vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft products.

Details:

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-055: Kodak Image Viewer contains a flaw that may allow a remote attacker to execute code via a specially crafted image file.

Rules to detect attacks targeting this vulnerability are included in this release and are identified as SIDs 12631 through 12634.

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-056: Microsoft Outlook Express and Windows Mail for Vista contain a programming error that may allow a remote attacker to execute code on an affected host via an NNTP server response.

A shared object rule to detect attacks targeting this vulnerability is included in this release and is identified as GID 3 SID 12636.

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-057: Microsoft Internet Explorer does not correctly handle errors encountered when handling file download queues. This may allow a remote attacker to execute code on a vulnerable host.

Previously released rules identified as SIDs 10504 and 10505 will generate events on attempts to exploit this vulnerability. Additionally, a rule to detect other attack vectors targeting this vulnerability is included in this release and is identified as SID 12630.

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-058: Microsoft Windows systems using RPC may be vulnerable to a Denial of Service (DoS) condition that occurs when a malformed authentication request is transmitted to an affected host.

A rule to detect attacks targeting this vulnerability is included in this release and is identified as SID 12635.

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-059: Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server suffer from a programming error that may allow an attacker to execute code and escalate privileges on an affected system.

A rule to detect attacks targeting this vulnerability is included in this release and is identified as SID 12629.

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