Microsoft Security Bulletins For September 2013 overview
Microsoft has released this month's security updates for Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office and other company products just a second ago.
This month's updates bring 13 bulletins that fix a total of 47 vulnerabilities.
Four bulletins have received the highest severity rating of critical. This means that at least one product is affected critically by at least one of the vulnerabilities that the bulletin addresses.
The remaining ten bulletins have all received a maximum severity rating of important. Again, this means that at least one product is affected by it at this severity level.
The vulnerabilities in eight bulletins may allow remote code execution on affected systems, while three may enable an elevation of privileges, two the denial of service, and one for information disclosure.
Operating System Distribution
This section looks at individual operating system versions, and how each supported operating system is affected by this month's bulletins.
Microsoft has released a total of 13 bulletins in September 2013, of which seven affect at least one version of Microsoft Windows.
Windows XP is again the operating system with the highest count of critical vulnerabilities. All newer Microsoft operating systems share the same amount of critical vulnerabilities. As far as important rated vulnerabilities go (the second highest rating): Windows 7 takes the lead here followed by Vista and Windows 8, and then Windows RT.
It looks similar on the server side of things. Windows Server 2003 is the only server operating system affected by a critical bulletin. All other server products are only affected by important and moderate bulletins, with Windows Server 2008 R2 affected by one additional important rated bulletin.
- Windows XP: 2 critical, 3 important
- Windows Vista: 1 critical, 3 important
- Windows 7:Â 1 critical, 4 important
- Windows 8:Â 1 critical, 3 important
- Windows RT: 1 critical, 2 important
- Windows Server 2003: 1 critical, 3 important, 1 moderate
- Windows Server 2008: 3 important, 1 moderate
- Windows Server 2008 R2: 4 important, 1 moderate
- Windows Server 2012: 3 important, 1 moderate
Office Distribution
Microsoft has released seven Office-related bulletins in September 2013. The distribution indicates that Office 2010 is the operating system with the largest number of vulnerabilities, followed by Office 2007. Both Office 2003 and Office 2013 share the same low number of vulnerabilities.
- Microsoft Office 2003: 2 important
- Microsoft Office 2007: 1 critical, 3 important
- Microsoft Office 2010: 1 critical, 4 important
- Microsoft Office 2013: 2 important
- Microsoft Office for Mac: 1 important
Deployment Guide
Microsoft releases a deployment guide each month that system administrators and individual users can use as a guideline to determine the update priority.
While it is usually sound to start with the critical updates and then the lesser severe updates, it may be important to distribute updates in a certain order, for instance to fix issues first that are exploited in the wild.
Priority 1 updates: MS13-068 Outlook, MS13-069 Internet Explorer and MS13-067 SharePoint Server
Priority 2 updates: Ms13-070 OLE, MS13-072 Office, Ms13-073 Excel, Ms13-076 Kernel-Mode Driver and Ms13-079 Active Directory
Priority 3 updates: Ms13-071 Windows Theme File, Ms13-074 Access, Ms13-075 Office IME (Chinese), Ms13-077 Windows SCM and Ms13-078 FrontPage.
Security Bulletins
- MS13-067Vulnerabilities in Microsoft SharePoint Server Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2834052)
- MS13-068Vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2756473)
- MS13-069Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (2870699)
- MS13-070Vulnerability in OLE Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2876217)
- MS13-071Vulnerability in Windows Theme File Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2864063)
- MS13-072Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2845537)
- MS13-073Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Excel Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2858300)
- MS13-074Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Access Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2848637)
- MS13-075Vulnerability in Microsoft Office IME (Chinese) Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (2878687)
- MS13-076Vulnerabilities in Kernel-Mode Drivers Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (2876315)
- MS13-077Vulnerability in Windows Service Control Manager Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (2872339)
- MS13-078Vulnerability in FrontPage Could Allow Information Disclosure (2825621)
- MS13-079Vulnerability in Active Directory Could Allow Denial of Service (2853587)
Other Security related updates
Security Update for Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows Embedded Standard 7, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Vista (KB2862973)
MS13-057: Security Update for Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, and Windows XP (KB2803821)
MS13-057: Security Update for Windows Media Format Runtime for Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP (KB2834902)
MS13-057: Security Update for Windows Media Format Runtime 9.5 for Windows XP (KB2834903)
MS13-057: Security Update for Windows Media Format Runtime for Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP (KB2834904)
MS13-057: Security Update for Windows Media Format Runtime 9.5 for Windows XP (KB2834905)
MS13-066: Security Update for Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2008 R2, and Windows Server 2008 (KB2843639)
Non-security related updates
Update for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 (KB2574819)
Update for Windows Embedded Standard 7, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 R2 (KB2834140)
Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 4 on Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, and Windows XP (KB2836939)
Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 SP2 on Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP (KB2836941)
Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5.1 on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 (KB2836943)
Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 SP2 on Windows Server 2008 (KB2836945)
Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 on Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 (KB2836946)
Update for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 (KB2853952)
Update for Windows 8, Windows RT, Windows Server 2012, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, and Windows Server 2008 (KB2868116)
Update for Windows 8, Windows RT, and Windows Server 2012 (KB2871389)
Update for Windows 8, Windows RT, and Windows Server 2012 (KB2871777)
Update for Windows 8, Windows RT, and Windows Server 2012 (KB2876415)
Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool - September 2013 (KB890830)/Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool - September 2013 (KB890830) - Internet Explorer Version
Update for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 (KB2592687)
System Update Readiness Tool for Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Vista (KB947821)
How to download and install the September 2013 security updates
The common way to install the updates is via the operating system's built-in automatic update feature. While that is comfortable to do, it does not provide you with many controls. You cannot for instance decide the order in which updates should be installed.
The easiest way to open Windows Update is to tap on the Windows-key, enter Windows Update, and select the entry from the list of results that opens up.
You can download all patches from Microsoft's Download Center either individually, or as a monthly ISO image. An alternative to that are third party tools that you can use to download patches and updates to your system.
Additional information are available on Microsoft's MSRC blog.
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Are these articles AI generated?
Now the duplicates are more obvious.
This is below AI generated crap. It is copy of Microsoft Help website article without any relevant supporting text. Anyway you can find this information on many pages.
Yes, but why post the exact same article under a different title twice on the same day (19 march 2023), by two different writers?
1.) Excel Keyboard Shortcuts by Trevor Monteiro.
2.) 70+ Excel Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows by Priyanka Monteiro
Why oh why?
Yeah. Tell me more about “Priyanka Monteiro”. I’m dying to know. Indian-Portuguese bot ?
Probably they will announce that the taskbar will be placed at top, right or left, at your will.
Special event by they is a special crap for us.
If it’s Microsoft, don’t buy it.
Better brands at better prices elsewhere.
All new articles have zero count comments. :S
WTF? So, If I add one photo to 5 albums, will it count 5x on my storage?
It does not make any sense… on google photos, we can add photo to multiple albums, and it does not generate any additional space usage
I have O365 until end of this year, mostly for onedrive and probably will jump into google one
Photo storage must be kept free because customers chose gadgets just for photos and photos only.
What a nonsense. Does it mean that albums are de facto folders with copies of our pictures?
Sounds exactly like the poor coding Microsoft is known for in non-critical areas i.e. non Windows Core/Office Core.
I imagine a manager gave an employee the task to create the album feature with hardly any time so they just copied the folder feature with some cosmetic changes.
And now that they discovered what poor management results in do they go back and do the album feature properly?
Nope, just charge the customer twice.
Sounds like a go-getter that needs to be promoted for increasing sales and managing underlings “efficiently”, said the next layer of middle management.
When will those comments get fixed? Was every editor here replaced by AI and no one even works on this site?
Instead of a software company, Microsoft is now a fraud company.
For me this is proof that Microsoft has a back-door option into all accounts in their cloud.
quote “…… as the MSA key allowed the hacker group access to virtually any cloud account at Microsoft…..”
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so this MSA key which is available to MS officers can give access to all accounts in MS cloud.This is the backdoor that MS has into the cloud accounts. Lucky I never got any relevant files of mine in their (MS) cloud.
>”Now You: what is your theory?”
That someone handed an employee a briefcase full of cash and the employee allowed them access to all their accounts and systems.
Anything that requires 5-10 different coincidences to happen is highly unlikely. Occam’s razor.
Good reason to never login to your precious machine with a Microsoft a/c a.k.a. as the cloud.
The GAFAM are always very careless about our software automatically sending to them telemetry and crash dumps in our backs. It’s a reminder not to send them anything when it’s possible to opt out, and not to opt in, considering what they may contain. And there is irony in this carelessness biting them back, even if in that case they show that they are much more cautious when it’s their own data that is at stake.