Common Tasks

Recent Posts

Community

Email Notifications

Personal Links

Archives

Security Protection - Harry Waldron (CS)

Security Best Practices, Breaking News, & Updates

Microsoft Security updates for February 2006 - New Media Player exploits emerge

  Below are some new exploits MS06-05 and MS06-06 that emerged shortly after Microsoft's "Patch Tuesday" updates on Valentines Day.  Where malicious code is easy to develop by the bad guys, the timeframe for reverse engineering is moving from hours and days instead of a couple of weeks.  Please update your systems promptly if you haven't had a chance to do this yet.

FOUR NEW EXPLOITS FROM FEBRUARY UPDATES - from FrSIRT's website:

2006-02-17 : Microsoft Windows Media Player 10 Plugin Remote Code Execution Exploit (MS06-006)
 
2006-02-17 : Microsoft Windows Media Player 9 Plugin Remote Code Execution Exploit (MS06-006)
 
2006-02-16 : Microsoft Windows Media Player BMP Handling Buffer Overflow Exploit (MS06-005) #2
 
2006-02-15 : Microsoft Windows Media Player BMP Handling Buffer Overflow Exploit (MS06-005)



  Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for February, 2006
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms06-feb.mspx