Homeland Security Warning

[Gojirax]

Add Microsoft's KB914388, KB917159 and KB917283 to that as well then. Those are all recent remote code execution or remote control vulnerabilities.

I wonder why they picked KB921883 to freak out about?

[Gojirax]

And the other ones affect DHCP service, Mail Service and ASP.NET... a pretty widespread set of vulnerabilities as well.

I still fail to see the significance that makes it worthy of the DHS claiming people should download this over others.

SyrTran wrote:
@Gojirax

I wonder why they picked KB921883 to freak out about?

Affected TCP/IP ports:

139 - NetBIOS Datagram Service
445 - Microsoft-DS

Basically, if you're running a Windows NetBIOS (SMB/CIFS) network without a firewall or MS' latest patches, you're vulnerable.

If you're doing -any- Windows Printer/File Sharing, you're running with these ports open.

This affects a -lot- of Windows networks.  Maybe even DHS' own network. ;-)