Microsoft security alert.
December 1, 2004
Advisory overview
Qualys Vulnerability R&D Lab has released new vulnerability checks in the Enterprise TruRisk Platform to protect organizations against 1 vulnerability that were fixed in 1 bulletins announced today by Microsoft. Customers can immediately audit their networks for these and other new vulnerabilities by accessing their Qualys subscription. Visit Qualys Security Blog to prioritize remediation.
Non-Qualys customers can audit their network for these and other vulnerabilities by signing up for a Qualys Free Trial, or by trying Qualys Community Edition.
Vulnerability details
Microsoft has released 1 security bulletins to fix newly discovered flaws in their software. Qualys has released the following checks for these new vulnerabilities:
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Microsoft Internet Explorer IFRAME Buffer Overflow Vulnerability ( MS04-040 )
- Severity
- Urgent 5
- Qualys ID
- 100022
- Vendor Reference
- MS04-040
- CVE Reference
- CVE-2004-1050
- CVSS Scores
- Base 10 / Temporal 8.3
- Description
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Internet Explorer contains a buffer overflow vulnerability, which can be exploited to compromise a user's system.
The vulnerability is due to a boundary error in the handling of certain attributes in the IFRAME HTML tag. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow via a malicious HTML document containing overly long strings in the SRC and NAME attributes of the IFRAME tag.
- Consequence
- If this vulnerability is successfully exploited, malicious users will be able to execute arbitrary code on the affected system.
- Solution
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Microsoft has released a patch for this issue. Download the patch from Microsoft security bulletin MS04-040.
Patches:
The following are links for downloading patches to fix these vulnerabilities:
MS04-040 Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 on Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 3, on Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, or on Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 1
MS04-040 Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 on Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Service Pack 6a, on Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Terminal Service Edition Service Pack 6, on Microsoft Windows 98, on Microsoft Windows 98 SE, or on Microsoft Windows Me
MS04-040 Internet Explorer 6 for Windows XP Service Pack 1 (64 Bit Edition)
These new vulnerability checks are included in Qualys vulnerability signature 1.9.106-3. Each Qualys account is automatically updated with the latest vulnerability signatures as they become available. To view the vulnerability signature version in your account, from the Qualys Help menu, select the About tab.
Selective Scan Instructions Using Qualys
To perform a selective vulnerability scan, configure a scan profile to use the following options:
- Ensure access to TCP ports 135 and 139 are available.
- Enable Windows Authentication (specify Authentication Records).
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Enable the following Qualys IDs:
- 100022
- If you would like the scan to return the Windows Hostname, also include QID 82044 and ensure access to UDP port 137 is available.
- If you would like to be notified if Qualys is unable to log on to a host (if Authentication fails), also include QID 105015.
In addition, prior to running a scan for these new vulnerabilities, you can estimate your exposure to these new threats by running the Risk Analysis Report, available from the Qualys Vulnerability Management Reports tab.
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