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MS14-041 – Important: Vulnerability in DirectShow Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (2975681) – Version: 1.0

Severity Rating: Important
Revision Note: V1.0 (July 8, 2014): Bulletin published
Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker first exploits another vulnerability in a low integrity process and then uses this vulnerability to execute specially crafted code in the context of the logged on user. By default, the modern, immersive browsing experience on Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 runs with Enhanced Protected Mode (EPM). For example, customers using the touch-friendly Internet Explorer 11 browser on modern Windows tablets are using Enhanced Protected Mode by default. Enhanced Protected Mode uses advanced security protections that can help mitigate against exploitation of this vulnerability on 64-bit systems.

MS14-038 – Critical: Vulnerability in Windows Journal Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2975689) – Version: 1.0

Severity Rating: Critical
Revision Note: V1.0 (July 8, 2014): Bulletin published.
Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Journal file. An attacker would have no way to force users to visit a specially crafted website. Instead, an attacker would have to convince them to visit the website, typically by getting them to click a link that takes them to the attacker’s site, and then convince them to open the specially crafted Journal file.

MS14-042 – Moderate: Vulnerability in Microsoft Service Bus Could Allow Denial of Service (2972621) – Version: 1.0

Severity Rating: Moderate
Revision Note: V1.0 (July 8, 2014): Bulletin published
Summary: This security update resolves one publicly disclosed vulnerability in Microsoft Service Bus for Windows Server. The vulnerability could allow denial of service if a remote authenticated attacker creates and runs a program that sends a sequence of specially crafted Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) messages to the target system. Microsoft Service Bus for Windows Server is not shipped with any Microsoft operating system. For an affected system to be vulnerable Microsoft Service Bus must first be downloaded, installed, and configured, and then its configuration details (farm certificate) shared with other users.

MS14-040 – Important: Vulnerability in Ancillary Function Driver (AFD) Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (2975684) – Version: 1.0

Severity Rating: Important
Revision Note: V1.0 (July 8, 2014): Bulletin published.
Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow elevation of privilege an attacker logs onto a system and runs a specially crafted application. An attacker must have valid logon credentials and be able to log on locally to exploit this vulnerability.

2960358 – Update for Disabling RC4 in .NET TLS – Version: 1.2

Revision Note: V1.2 (July 8, 2014): Advisory revised to announce a Microsoft Update Catalog detection change for the updates requiring installation of the 2868725 prerequisite update. This is a detection change only. Customers who have already successfully updated their systems do not need to take any action.
Summary: Microsoft is announcing the availability of an update for Microsoft .NET Framework that disables RC4 in Transport Layer Security (TLS) through the modification of the system registry. Use of RC4 in TLS could allow an attacker to perform man-in-the-middle attacks and recover plaintext from encrypted sessions.

MS14-018 – Critical: Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (2950467) – Version: 1.2

Severity Rating: Critical
Revision Note: V1.2 (June 30, 2014): Corrected the CVE number for CVE-2014-0325. The bulletin incorrectly had listed this CVE number as CVE-2014-0235. This is an informational change only.
Summary: This security update resolves six privately reported vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. These vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted webpage using Internet Explorer. An attacker who successfully exploited these vulnerabilities could gain the same user rights as the current user. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.

MS14-019 – Critical: Vulnerability in Windows File Handling Component Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2922229) – Version: 1.1

Severity Rating: Critical
Revision Note: V1.1 (June 27, 2014): Updated the Known Issues entry in the Knowledge Base Article section from “None” to “Yes”.
Summary: This security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user runs specially crafted .bat and .cmd files from a trusted or semi-trusted network location. An attacker would have no way to force users to visit the network location or run the specially crafted files. Instead, an attacker would have to convince users to take such action. For example, an attacker could trick users into clicking a link that takes them to the location of the attacker’s specially crafted files and subsequently convince them to run them.

MS14-035 – Critical: Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (2969262) – Version: 1.1

Severity Rating: Critical
Revision Note: V1.1 (June 17, 2014): Corrected the severity table and vulnerability information to add CVE-2014-2782 as a vulnerability addressed by this update. This is an informational change only. Customers who have already successfully installed the update do not need to take any action.
Summary: This security update resolves two publicly disclosed vulnerabilities and fifty-eight privately reported vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. The most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted webpage using Internet Explorer. An attacker who successfully exploited these vulnerabilities could gain the same user rights as the current user. Customers whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than those who operate with administrative user rights.

2974294 – Vulnerability in Microsoft Malware Protection Engine Could Allow Denial of Service – Version: 1.0

Severity Rating: Important
Revision Note: V1.0 (June 17, 2014): Advisory published
Summary: Microsoft is releasing this security advisory to inform customers that an update to the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine addresses a security vulnerability that was reported to Microsoft. The vulnerability could allow denial of service if the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine scans a specially crafted file. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could prevent the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine from monitoring affected systems until the specially crafted file is manually removed and the service is restarted.