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Secunia Advisory SA7579

Microsoft vulnerabilities not fixed
Secunia Advisory SA7579
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Release Date 2002-11-22
Last Update 2002-11-27
   
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Criticality level Moderately criticalModerately critical
Impact System access
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
Remediation status Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
Automated scanning Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
   
Software:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x
Microsoft Outlook 2000
Microsoft Outlook 2002
Microsoft Outlook 97.x
Microsoft Outlook 98.x
Microsoft Outlook Express 5
Microsoft Outlook Express 5.5
Microsoft Outlook Express 6

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) No CVE references.

  

Description

Microsoft issued two advisories on 20th November 2002. It appears however that the vulnerabilities STILL exist to a certain extent.

MS02-065 regarding vulnerabilities RDS / MDAC
Microsoft has stated that the previous version of MDAC may be reactivated by an attacker, the reason is that the Kill Bit has not been set. This allows an old component to be reactivated - without any warning, thus the vulnerability may still be exploited.

MS02-066 regarding a cumulative patch which closed numerous vulnerabilities. This should apparently have fixed the issue which allowed malicious websites to execute executable files in the local security zone. This is however still possible, what has been closed is another vulnerability which made it possible to pass arguments to the executable file.
It is also still possible to read contents of the clipboard as well as writing new contents to it.
Microsoft has known about these vulnerabilities at least since 22nd October 2002


Solution
Outlook and Outlook Express are not vulnerable IF you have deployed "Outlook Email Security Update" or run Outlook 2002 or Outlook Express 6.
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