[Full-disclosure] Will Microsoft patch remarkable old Msjet40.dll issue?

[Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio@xxxxxxxx>]

Microsoft informs about ten existing Windows flaws and two Office flaws at
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/advance.mspx

Some of the upcoming security bulletins have Critical severity.

Maybe it's time to release a fix to remarkable old Msjet40.dll issue reported 
by HexView as early as in March 2005.

Some background information:

In May Trojans exploited undocumented 0-day vulnerability in MS Word.
In June Trojans attacked against Excel.
July was the month of PowerPoint 0-days.

Actually there was no reports about the fourth Office case. But there was 
another Office case too.
It was related to Microsoft Access.

Trojan Backdoor.Pcclient.B attacked against unpatched
'Microsoft Jet Database Engine Malformed Database File Buffer Overflow 
Vulnerability'
spreaded with dropper file containing Trojan.Acdropper.B.
This is not a surprise, because at least three public exploits have been 
published.

A coverage list of references is listed at http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/176380

US-CERT doesn't list affected systems, but Access 2003, 2002 and 2002 install 
Msjet40.dll.

These were not the last Office issues we will see. And more is coming if old 
Office flaws keep unpatched in the future.

More details and some conclusions at my new entry
http://blogs.securiteam.com/?p=535


- Juha-Matti

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