[BESAdmin-Announcements] Tasks Available for Microsoft Security Advisory 912840

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Microsoft published Security Advisory 912840
(http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/912840.mspx) on December
28th, 2005 to warn users of a newly discovered security vulnerability in the
Windows Meta File (WMF) code area in the Windows platform. Microsoft is
planning to release a patch that corrects the underlying vulnerability on
Tuesday, January 10th, 2006 as part of the regular monthly security bulletin
release.

 

To help customers address this issue before a patch is available, BigFix has
published two tasks in the "Enterprise Security" site that implements the
current workaround suggested by Microsoft: 

 

Task ID 91284001: "Security Advisory 912840: Vulnerability in Graphics
Rendering Engine Could Allow Remote Code Execution - Un-register
Shimgvw.dll"

Task ID 91284002: "Security Advisory 912840: Vulnerability in Graphics
Rendering Engine Could Allow Remote Code Execution - Re-register
Shimgvw.dll"

 

These tasks allow BES Administrators to un-register and re-register "Windows
Picture and Fax Viewer" on Windows XP SP1/SP2 and Windows Server 2003.
Please contact BigFix Technical Support (enterprisesupport at bigfix.com) if
you have any questions regarding the advisory or these tasks.

BigFix Product Team

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