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Date: Fri May 04 2007 - 01:21:43 CDT

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By Larry Greenemeier
InformationWeek
May 3, 2007

Microsoft customers can look forward to seven security bulletins, some
of them critical, affecting Windows, Office, and Exchange as well as
Capicom and BizTalk as part of next week's Patch Tuesday ritual.
Microsoft said Thursday that next week it will also provide an update to
its Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool. In addition, the company is
planning to release one high-priority non-security update on Windows
Update as well as six high-priority non-security updates through
Microsoft Update.

Three security bulletins slated for Patch Tuesday affect Office, while
two affect Windows. Exchange is affected by one bulletin as is Microsoft
BizTalk business process management server and Capicom, a Microsoft
ActiveX control that can be used to enable the digital signing of data
with a smart card or software key, the verification of digitally signed
data, and the graphical display of certificate information, among other
security functions.

The patches related to Microsoft Office should prove the most
interesting of an otherwise routine Patch Tuesday experience, says
Johannes Ullrich, chief research officer at the SANS Institute and chief
technology officer for the Internet Storm Center. While BizTalk affects
relatively few Microsoft customers, it's an important system and those
using it will have a keen interest in that patch.

Microsoft also says it hasn't discovered any new information pertaining
to mid-April reports of an attack exploiting a vulnerability in the
Domain Name System Server Service in Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
Service Pack 4, Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, and Windows Server
2003 Service Pack 2. Microsoft has thus far learned that the attempts to
exploit this vulnerability could allow an attacker to run code in the
security context of the Domain Name System Server Service. The company
had a few weeks ago been seeing new attacks by the Win32/Siveras bot
family to exploit the vulnerability. Windows Live Safety Scanner and
Windows Live OneCare can be used to detect currently known malware types
trying to exploit the vulnerability.

The Windows DNS Server's problem has been ongoing and centers on a flaw
that leaves the system exposed to buffer overflows and a problem with
the system's design that doesn't require users to authenticate before
being given permission to make changes to DNS server information.
Ullrich says. "Disabling this feature is a fairly solid workaround,
although it also disables some of the system's management features."

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