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Aware of multiple vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft products |
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Written by snort.org
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Wednesday, 14 February 2007 |
Details:
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-005:
Step-by-Step Interactive Training contains a remotely exploitable vulnerability that may allow an attacker to execute code on a vulnerable system.
Rules to detect attacks targeting this vulnerability were released on September 29, 2005 and are identified as SIDs 4195 and 4196.
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-008:
A vulnerability exists in the HTML Help ActiveX control that may allow a remote attacker to execute code on a vulnerable system.
Rules to detect attacks targeting this vulnerability were released on August 9, 2006 and are identified as SIDs 7439 and 7440.
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-009:
A vulnerability exists in the Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC)
ActiveX control that may allow a remote attacker to execute code on a
vulnerable system.
A rule to detect attacks targeting this vulnerability was released on September 1, 2006 and is identified as SID 7866.
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-016:
Multiple vulnerabilities exist in Internet Explorer that may allow a
remote attacker to execute code on a vulnerable system. The problems
lie in how Internet Explorer handles COM objects and how the
application handles FTP server responses.
Rules to detect attacks targeting this vulnerability are included in
this release and are identified as SIDs 10137 through 10155.
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-014:
A vulnerability in Microsoft Word exists that may allow an attacker to
execute code on an affected host using a specially crafted Word
document.
Microsoft documents that exhibit vulnerable characteristics can be identified using the OfficeCat tool.
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-015:
Microsoft Excel contains a programming error that may allow an attacker
to execute code on an affected host using a specially crafted Excel
file.
Microsoft documents that exhibit vulnerable characteristics can be identified using the OfficeCat tool.
Advisory:
A detailed advisory as well as a complete list of modified and deleted rules is available at http://www.snort.org/vrt/advisories/vrt-rules-2007-02-13.html.
Download Rules:
These rules will be available to subscribers only until Thursday, March 15, 2007. Subscribers can download the rules at http://www.snort.org/pub-bin/downloads.cgi. |