SANS ISC: Microsoft Patch Tuesday - January 2015 (Really? Telnet?)

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Seeing that Windows is primarily a GUI-based OS, does anyone actually use telnet on Windows servers? I would ask "does anyone use telnet at all?" but unfortunately my work still uses it for some local-only Unix-based applications.

I doubt Windows users use telnet much. I could see it enabled on systems that run embedded Windows. But the telnet server hasn't been installed by default since Windows 2003. Also the telnet client is usually not installed, minimizing the chances that the server is enabled.

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- http://blogs.technet.com/b/msrc/archive/2015/01/13/january-2015-updates.aspx
Jan 13, 2015 - "... We re-released one Security Bulletin:
- MS14-080 Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer
> https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/MS14-080 *
One Security Advisory was revised:
- Update for Vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player in Internet Explorer (2755801)
> https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/2755801.aspx ..."

* V1.0 (December 9, 2014): Bulletin published.
V2.0 (January 13, 2015): To address issues with Security Update 3008923, Microsoft re-released MS14-080 to comprehensively address CVE-2014-6363. In addition to installing update 3008923, customers running Explorer 10 on Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, or Window RT should also install update 3029449, which has been added with this rerelease. Customers who have already successfully installed the 3008923 update, which has not changed since its original release, do -not- need to reinstall it. See Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 3008923** for more information.
** https://support.microsoft.com/kb/3008923
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MS15-004 has the MS Exploitability Assessment 0 (Exploitation Detected). Shouldn't ISC rating be changed to Critical or even PATCH NOW ?

MS15-002 is critical with white on red, but the legend reserves that for patch now, no?

Quoting mutifo:MS15-004 has the MS Exploitability Assessment 0 (Exploitation Detected). Shouldn't ISC rating be changed to Critical or even PATCH NOW ?

I was reviewing Microsoft's summary and saw the same thing. I concur, it should be raised at a minimum for workstations. Internally, we are rating it as critical.

Yes, it hard to believe but Activant (Epicor) uses it for their ERP software working with HVAC and other industries. This was yet another reason their servers at time of departure were only running 2003.

From their site.


How do I use PuTTY with my Eclipse server?

Download and run putty.exe
Enter your server’s Host Name (or IP address)
Select either SSH (preferred, secure, works some AIX servers and all RHEL servers) or Telnet (insecure, works with all Eclipse servers)
Optionally, you may give the session a name and Save for future connections
Select Open to launch the telnet/ssh session
Enter your root login credentials
(AIX only) Set the terminal type:

Wonder if the Edge Transport service for Exchange would be affected, or share DLLs with the Telnet Service since it allows telnet connectivity over TCP port 25 for SMTP.

If that is the case, there will be quite a few Windows boxes with a telnet service installed and running.

Jim Shanks - GSEC, GPEN
Roth & Company, P.C.