Symantec Security Advisory SYMSA-2007-005[1]is now available. This covers a Teredo-related vulnerability in theVista version of Windows Firewall (BID 24779, CVE-2007-3038). (To beclear, this vulnerability is not connected to any of the nine Vistaissues I discussed in my last blog[2].)
Last fall, when Ollie Whitehouse[3] was analyzing whatTCP ports were open over a Teredo interface in a freshly installedWindows Vista RC2, he discovered that port 5357 was open over Teredo.We thought this odd since there is no functional reason this port,which corresponds to Web Services on Devices (WSD)[4], should beremotely accessible. When the release version of Vista becameavailable, we verified that this port was still open. (...
This month's Microsoft patch releaseincludes six bulletins, addressing 12 vulnerabilities in common clientand server software, including four in a popular developmentenvironment. Topping the heap in terms of urgency is a remotelyexploitable, server side code execution vulnerability in IIS, andthat's where we'll start:
MS07-041;KB939373Vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Information Services Could Allow Remote Code Execution
This bulletin addresses a previously known issue in IIS 5.1 onWindows XP that was reported in late 2005 as a denial-of-serviceproblem. It is now known to be exploitable to run attacker code. IIS isnot running or installed by default on Windows XP.
Microsoft Internet Information Server 5.1 DLL Request Remote Code Execution Vulnerability BID...
