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Patch Tuesday December 2011

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Dec

2011

Microsoft finishes out this year of patching with a heavy release that’s all over place. While techs were notified of an anticipated 14 bulletins, 13 were released for the month of December. Headline grabbing events and code are addressed in one of them, and while fewer are labelled “Critical”, are they any less important? Many […]

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CVE-2011-3402 Vulnerability in TrueType Font Parsing

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Nov

2011

When Duqu, which most believed to be written by the same group that wrote Stuxnet, was originally uncovered, the infection vector was still unknown; how did the machines get compromised in the first place? That changed when the Hungarian research lab, CrySys, announced that it had found the dropper which was a Word file that […]

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Using DLLCHARACTERISTICS’ FORCE_INTEGRITY Flag

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Oct

2011

I discovered the flag FORCE_INTEGRITY last year when I released my tool setdllcharacteristics. This flag will force a check of the executable’s digital signature (on Windows Vista and Windows 7) and will prevent the program from running if the signature is invalid (or missing).But it’s only now that I hold all the pieces to test […]

Category Security Written by Didier Stevens 0 Comments

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Patch Tuesday December 2011

CVE-2011-3402 Vulnerability in TrueType Font Parsing

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