Microsoft May 2012 Black Tuesday Update - Overview

Overview of the May 2012 Microsoft patches and their status.

#	Affected	Contra Indications - KB	Known Exploits	Microsoft rating(**)	ISC rating(*)
#	Affected	Contra Indications - KB	Known Exploits	Microsoft rating(**)	clients	servers
MS12-029	Microsoft Word RTF Import (Replaces MS10-079, MS11-089, MS11-094)
MS12-029	Microsoft Word 2003 and 2007 CVE-2012-0183	KB 2680352	No publicly known exploits	Severity:Critical Exploitability: 1	CRITICAL	N/A
MS12-030	Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities (Replaces MS11-072, MS11-089, MS11-094, MS11-096)
MS12-030	Microsoft Excel 2003/2007/2010 CVE-2012-0141 CVE-2012-0142 CVE-2012-0143 CVE-2012-0184 CVE-2012-0185 CVE-2012-1847	KB 2663830	Yes (CVE-2012-0143)	Severity:Critical Exploitability: 3,3,1,1,2,1	CRITICAL	N/A
MS12-031	Visio Viewer 2010 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (Replaces MS12-015)
MS12-031	Microsoft Visio Viewer 2010 CVE-2012-0018	KB 2597981	No publicly known exploits	Severity:Important Exploitability: 1	CRITICAL	N/A
MS12-032	TCP/IP Elevation of Privilege and Firewall Bypass Vulnerability (Replaces MS11-083)
MS12-032	TCP/IP, Windows Firewall CVE-2012-0174 CVE-2012-0179	KB 2597981	No publicly known exploits	Severity:Important Exploitability: 1	important	important
MS12-033	Vulnerability in Windows Client/Server Run-time Subsystem Could Allow Elevation of Privilege
MS12-033	Plug and Play (PnP) Configuration Manager Vulnerability CVE-2012-0178	KB 2690533	Elevation of Privilege	Severity:Important Exploitability: Likely	Important	Important
MS12-034	Combined Security Update for Microsoft Office, Windows, .NET Framework, and Silverlight (Replaces MS11-029, MS12-018)
MS12-034	Microsoft Windows, Microsoft .NET Framework, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Office CVE-2011-3402 CVE-2012-0159 CVE-2012-0162 CVE-2012-0164 CVE-2012-0165 CVE-2012-0167 CVE-2012-0176 CVE-2012-0180 CVE-2012-0181 CVE-2012-0184	KB 2681578	Yes	Severity:Critical Exploitability: 1,1,1,1,2,1,1,1,1,1	CRITICAL	CRITICAL
MS12-035	.Net Framework Remote Code Execution (Replaces MS11-044, MS11-078, MS12-016)
MS12-035	.NET Framework CVE-2012-0160 CVE-2012-0161	KB 2693777	No publicly known exploits	Severity:Critical Exploitability: 1	CRITICAL	CRITICAL

We will update issues on this page for about a week or so as they evolve.
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(*): ISC rating

We use 4 levels:
- PATCH NOW: Typically used where we see immediate danger of exploitation. Typical environments will want to deploy these patches ASAP. Workarounds are typically not accepted by users or are not possible. This rating is often used when typical deployments make it vulnerable and exploits are being used or easy to obtain or make.
- Critical: Anything that needs little to become "interesting" for the dark side. Best approach is to test and deploy ASAP. Workarounds can give more time to test.
- Important: Things where more testing and other measures can help.
- Less Urgent: Typically we expect the impact if left unpatched to be not that big a deal in the short term. Do not forget them however.
The difference between the client and server rating is based on how you use the affected machine. We take into account the typical client and server deployment in the usage of the machine and the common measures people typically have in place already. Measures we presume are simple best practices for servers such as not using outlook, MSIE, word etc. to do traditional office or leisure work.
The rating is not a risk analysis as such. It is a rating of importance of the vulnerability and the perceived or even predicted threat for affected systems. The rating does not account for the number of affected systems there are. It is for an affected system in a t ypical worst-case role.
Only the organization itself is in a position to do a full risk analysis involving the presence (or lack of) affected systems, the actually implemented measures, the impact on their operation and the value of the assets involved.
All patches released by a vendor are important enough to have a close look if you use the affected systems. There is little incentive for vendors to publicize patches that do not have some form of risk to them.

(**): The exploitability rating we show is the worst of them all due to the too large number of ratings Microsoft assigns to some of the patches.

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Adam Swanger, Web Developer (GWEB, GWAPT)
Internet Storm Center - https://isc.sans.edu

AdamS

86 Posts

May 8th 2012

Seeing failures of KB2686509 - which is actually documented in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958051/ but in my own personal case there is no faultykeyboard.log file

Seeing people in the answers forum hitting it as well:
KB2686509 repeatedly fails with Error code 0x8007F0F4
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_xp-windows_update/kb2686509-repeatedly-fails-with-error-code/0deeacb6-115c-419d-ac37-03ff8927b79c

Susan

34 Posts

Microsoft is Still Serving up the April 2012 version 4.7 of the W7X64 Flavor of the Malicious Software Removal Tool;
Not the May 2012 V.4.8

x86 version is being served up but no joy on x64.
They Have been releasing Something to run on the machines at update time but who knows exactly what that is?

Susan
20 Posts

The KB article link for MS12-032 needs to be edited to point to KB2688338 ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2688338 )

Susan
10 Posts

They finally got it released on the server;
about ten minutes ago I got it d/l'd;
www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyId=585D2BDE-367F-495E-94E7-6349F4EFFC74&displaylang=en&pf=true

Susan
20 Posts