Microsoft Security Bulletin: June 2014 Release!

Welcome to another security bulletin and the final bulletin for the financial year. This time around we have 7 updates that you need to consider for your environments. Check out the details below and apply these where needed.

Bulletin ID	Bulletin Title and Executive Summary	Maximum Severity Rating and Vulnerability Impact	Restart Requirement	Affected Software
MS14-035	Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (2969262) This security update resolves two publicly disclosed vulnerabilities and fifty-seven privately reported vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. The most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted webpage using Internet Explorer. An attacker who successfully exploited these vulnerabilities could gain the same user rights as the current user. Customers whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than those who operate with administrative user rights.	Critical Remote Code Execution	Requires restart	Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer
MS14-036	Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Graphics Component Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2967487) This security update resolves two privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, and Microsoft Lync. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted file or webpage. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.	Critical Remote Code Execution	Requires restart	Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Lync
MS14-034	Vulnerability in Microsoft Word Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2969261) This security update resolves one privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Office. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a specially crafted file is opened in an affected version of Microsoft Word. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the current user. Customers whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than those who operate with administrative user rights.	Important Remote Code Execution	May require restart	Microsoft Office
MS14-033	Vulnerability in Microsoft XML Core Services Could Allow Information Disclosure (2966061) This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow information disclosure if a logged on user visits a specially crafted website that is designed to invoke Microsoft XML Core Services (MSXML) through Internet Explorer. In all cases, however, an attacker would have no way to force users to visit such websites. Instead, an attacker would have to convince users to visit a website, typically by getting them to click a link in an email message or in an Instant Messenger request that takes users to the attacker's website.	Important Information Disclosure	May require restart	Microsoft Windows
MS14-032	Vulnerability in Microsoft Lync Server Could Allow Information Disclosure (2969258) This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Lync Server. The vulnerability could allow information disclosure if a user tries to join a Lync meeting by clicking a specially crafted meeting URL.	Important Information Disclosure	May require restart	Microsoft Lync Server
MS14-031	Vulnerability in TCP Protocol Could Allow Denial of Service (2962478) This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow denial of service if an attacker sends a sequence of specially crafted packets to the target system.	Important Denial of Service	Requires restart	Microsoft Windows
MS14-030	Vulnerability in Remote Desktop Could Allow Tampering (2969259) This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow tampering if an attacker gains access to the same network segment as the targeted system during an active Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) session, and then sends specially crafted RDP packets to the targeted system. By default, RDP is not enabled on any Windows operating system. Systems that do not have RDP enabled are not at risk.	Important Tampering	May require restart	Microsoft Windows

I thought I would end the year and give you more information related to patching and updates. Below is where you can go for more information.

Other Information

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https://www.microsoft.com/security/msrc/collaboration/mapp.aspx.

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Happy Updating!

Jeffa

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