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Assessing the risk of the schannel.dll vulnerability (MS09-007)

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

MS09-007 resolves an issue in which an attacker may be able to log onto an SSL protected server which is configured to use certificate based client authentication with only the public key component of a certificate, not the associated private key. Only a subset of customers who log into SSL protected servers are at risk but it is a little tricky to explain who might be affected due to the unique nature of this vulnerability.

MS08-068: SMB credential reflection defense

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Today Microsoft released a security update, MS08-068, which addresses an NTLM reflection vulnerability in the SMB protocol. The vulnerability is rated Important on most operating systems, except Vista and Windows Server 2008 where it has a rating of Moderate. This blog post is intended to explain why the issue is less severe on Vista and Windows Server 2008, and provide some additional details to help people determine the risk they face in their environment.

MS07-063 - The case of the insecure signature

Thursday, December 27, 2007

MS07-063 addresses a weakness in the SMBv2 message signing algorithm. SMB signing is a feature enabled by default on domain controllers to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks. As you can imagine, if an attacker on your local subnet can tamper with the SMB network traffic between your domain controller and domain-joined clients, they can cause all kind of mayhem.