October 2012 Patch Tuesday Includes Update for Vulnerabilities in MS Office

After the out-of-band update for the IE zero-day reported a few weeks ago, this month’s cycle for patches is fairly a light one. Today, Microsoft released seven bulletins addressing several vulnerabilities for October. Out of the security updates only one is tagged as critical.

Included in this release is MS12-064 that addresses vulnerabilities existing in Microsoft Office. Accordingly, once this vulnerability is exploited via a specially crafted .RTF file, it could result to remote code execution thus compromising the security of the system. Another notable security update is MS12-070 that patches the vulnerability in Microsoft SQL Server in systems with SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). Remote attackers can execute commands when this vulnerability is exploited. Moreover, an attacker can just send a specially crafted link to the users to exploit this vulnerability or create a web page hosting an exploit.

Trend Micro Deep Security and Office Scan with Intrusion Defense Firewall (IDF) plugin users are protected ever since this security advisory is released. For more information on the bulletins and their IDF rules, visit the Threat Encyclopedia page.

Post from: Trendlabs Security Intelligence Blog – by Trend Micro

October 2012 Patch Tuesday Includes Update for Vulnerabilities in MS Office