Microsoft releases official VML patch!!
The big news this afternoon is that Microsoft HAS gone out of the routine patch cycle to release a security fix for the VML vulnerability that’s been actively exploited in recent days for everything from sneak keylogger installs to massive spyware installs. Sans has a few links, if you de-registered the affected DLL you should consider re-registering the same so that you’ll be able to view/access vml content in the future. Here’s Microsoft’s technet Security Bulletin on the matter. (Visit update.microsoft.com if it’s not automatically downloaded for you.) It should be noted that the RC of IE 7 was not affected by this vulnerability.
A few days ago, I speculated that the way to get this patched by 9/25/06 was if it were discovered that the vulnerability were being used to strip DRM from Microsoft’s Windows Media audio/video files…. I’m glad to see that they did it early without their DRM future at stake….
Also, I should mention if you’ve installed the unofficial patch, uninstall that at this time as well. Brian Krebs at the Security Fix also has coverage on this.
Good job Microsoft, thanks for going “out of cycle” to get this update out there.