Microsoft *WMF* Patch Today - 01.05.06

[hayc59]

Microsoft Security Response Center Bulletin Notification
Issued:
January 05, 2006

Summary:
Important Information for Thursday 5 January 2006
Microsoft announced that it would release a security update to help
protect customers from exploitations of a vulnerability in the
Windows Meta File (WMF) area of code in the Windows operating system
on Tuesday, January 2, 2006, in response to malicious and criminal
attacks on computer users that were discovered last week.

Microsoft will release the update today on Thursday, January 5, 2006,
earlier than planned.

Microsoft originally planned to release the update on Tuesday,
January 10, 2006 as part of its regular monthly release of security
bulletins, once testing for quality and application compatibility
was complete. However, testing has been completed earlier than
anticipated and the update is ready for release.

In addition, Microsoft is releasing the update early in response to
strong customer sentiment that the release should be made available
as soon as possible.

Microsoft's monitoring of attack data continues to indicate that the
attacks are limited and are being mitigated both by Microsoft's
efforts to shut down malicious Web sites and with up-to-date
signatures form anti-virus companies.

The security update will be available at 2:00 pm PT as MS06-001.

Enterprise customers who are using Windows Server Update Services
will receive the update automatically. In additional the update is
supported Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer 2.0, Systems
Management Server, and Software Update Services. Enterprise
customers can also manually download the update from the Download
Center.

Microsoft will hold a special Web cast on Friday, January 6, 2006,
to provide technical details on the MS06-001 and to answer questions.
Registration details will be available at
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/default.mspx.

Microsoft will also be releasing additional security updates on
Tuesday, January 10, 2006 as part of its regularly scheduled release
of security updates.

More Info: MS Security Notification

[koldchillah]

cool!

<<<goes off to synch SUS server>>>

[hayc59]

Also Note:
For those who unregistered the DLL 'regsvr32 shimgvw.dll'
You will need to manually re-register it after the patch install in order to use windows picture and fax viewer (and thumbnails)

[morbidpete]

Also Note:
For those who unregistered the DLL 'regsvr32 shimgvw.dll'
You will need to manually re-register it after the patch install in order to use windows picture and fax viewer (and thumbnails)

Code: Select all

regsvr32 "%commonprogramfiles%\Ahead\Lib\MediaLibraryNSE.dll"

just incase anyone needed it to reregister like hayc said

[hayc59]

* Microsoft Patches Released (NEW)
Published: 2006-01-05,
Last Updated: 2006-01-05 21:11:22 UTC by Marcus Sachs (Version: 2(click to highlight changes))

Many of you already know this if you receive advance notification from Microsoft. For everybody else, see their announcement about an early release of the WMF patch. The patch and details about it are available here. If you have installed any of the earlier patches or workarounds, here is our recommendation for updating:

1. Reboot your system to clear any vulnerable files from memory
2. Download and apply the new patch
3. Reboot
4. Uninstall the unofficial patch, by using Add/Remove Programs on single systems. If you used msi to install the patch on multiple machines you can uninstall it with this:
msiexec.exe /X{E1CDC5B0-7AFB-11DA-8CD6-0800200C9A66} /qn
5. Re-register the .dll if you previously unregistered it (use the same command but without the "-u"):
regsvr32 %windir%\system32\shimgvw.dll
6. Reboot one more time just for good measure

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank all of our incident handlers for the endless hours of analysis over the past week. Also, many thanks to the hundreds of readers who sent in analysis and observations. Finally, thanks to the response team at Microsoft for issuing the patch today. We all appreciate the extra internal effort it took to do this out of cycle.

Marcus H. Sachs
Director, SANS Internet Storm Center

[CableDude]

I'm not doing this.

[CableDude]

I'm not doing this.

Ok, I lied. I did one machine late in the day. Install went great, so hopefully no issues.

[wee96]

Thanks for the heads up, auto update took alittle while to tell me.

[hayc59]

CableDude
You a funny sum beatch

[CableDude]

CableDude
You a funny sum beatch

I have many machines to do and will wait till next week to do them.

NOD32 is staying up to date so that's all that matters right now.