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MS11-055 – Important : Vulnerability in Microsoft Visio Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2560847) – Version: 1.0

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Severity Rating: Important
Revision Note: V1.0 (July 12, 2011): Bulletin published.
Summary: This security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability in Microsoft Visio. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user opens a legitimate Visio file that is located in the same network directory as a specially crafted library file. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the logged-on 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.

MS11-046 – Important : Vulnerability in Ancillary Function Driver Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (2503665) – Version: 1.1

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Severity Rating: Important
Revision Note: V1.1 (June 30, 2011): Corrected the Affected Software table to include MS10-058 as a bulletin replaced by this update. This is an informational change only. There were no changes to the security update files or detection logic.
Summary: This security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows Ancillary Function Driver (AFD). The vulnerability could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker logs on to a user's system and runs a specially crafted application. An attacker must have valid logon credentials and be able to log on locally to exploit the vulnerability.

MS11-051 – Important : Vulnerability in Active Directory Certificate Services Web Enrollment Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (2518295) – Version: 1.1

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Severity Rating: Important
Revision Note: V1.1 (June 15, 2011): Clarified the XSS Filter mitigation.
Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Active Directory Certificate Services Web Enrollment. The vulnerability is a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability that could allow elevation of privilege, enabling an attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the site in the context of the target user. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability would need to send a specially crafted link and convince a user to click the link. In all cases, however, an attacker would have no way to force a user to visit the Web site. Instead, an attacker would have to persuade a user to visit the Web site, typically by getting them to click a link in an e-mail message or Instant Messenger message that takes the user to the vulnerable Web site.

MS11-037 – Important: Vulnerability in MHTML Could Allow Information Disclosure (2544893)

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Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability in the MHTML protocol handler in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow information disclosure if a user opens a specially crafted URL from an attacker's web site. An attacker would have to convince the user to visit the web site, typically by getting them to follow a link in an e-mail message or Instant Messenger message.

MS11-051 – Important: Vulnerability in Active Directory Certificate Services Web Enrollment Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (2518295)

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Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Active Directory Certificate Services Web Enrollment. The vulnerability is a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability that could allow elevation of privilege, enabling an attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the site in the context of the target user. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability would need to send a specially crafted link and convince a user to click the link. In all cases, however, an attacker would have no way to force a user to visit the Web site. Instead, an attacker would have to persuade a user to visit the Web site, typically by getting them to click a link in an e-mail message or Instant Messenger message that takes the user to the vulnerable Web site.

MS11-041 – Critical: Vulnerability in Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2525694)

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Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user visits a network share (or visits a web site that points to a network share) containing a specially crafted OpenType font (OTF). In all cases, however, an attacker would have no way to force a user to visit such a web site or network share. Instead, an attacker would have to convince a user to visit the web site or network share, typically by getting them to click a link in an e-mail message or Instant Messenger message.

MS11-050 – Critical: Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (2530548)

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Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This security update resolves eleven privately reported vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. The most severe vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted Web page using Internet Explorer. An attacker who successfully exploited any of these vulnerabilities could gain the same user rights as the local 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.

MS11-043 – Critical: Vulnerability in SMB Client Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2536276)

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Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if an attacker sent a specially crafted SMB response to a client-initiated SMB request. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker must convince the user to initiate an SMB connection to a specially crafted SMB server.

MS11-049 – Important: Vulnerability in the Microsoft XML Editor Could Allow Information Disclosure (2543893)

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Bulletin Severity Rating:Important - This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft XML Editor. The vulnerability could allow information disclosure if a user opened a specially crafted Web Service Discovery (.disco) file with one of the affected software listed in this bulletin. Note that this vulnerability would not allow an attacker to execute code or to elevate their user rights directly, but it could be used to produce information that could be used to try to further compromise the affected system.

MS11-039 – Critical: Vulnerability in .NET Framework and Microsoft Silverlight Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2514842)

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Bulletin Severity Rating:Critical - This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft .NET Framework and Microsoft Silverlight. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution on a client system if a user views a specially crafted Web page using a Web browser that can run XAML Browser Applications (XBAPs) or Silverlight applications. 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. The vulnerability could also allow remote code execution on a server system running IIS, if that server allows processing ASP.NET pages and an attacker succeeds in uploading a specially crafted ASP.NET page to that server and then executes the page, as could be the case in a Web hosting scenario. This vulnerability could also be used by Windows .NET applications to bypass Code Access Security (CAS) restrictions.