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Patch Tuesday: March 11, 2008

The eEye Digital Security Research Team is dedicated to finding and educating the public about new and existing security vulnerabilities. Below is a list of resources to help you understand the scope of the vulnerabilities behind this month's patches and how to make informed decisions about best ways to proceed with patch installation.

Patch Tuesday Email Bulletin
Immediately following each Patch Tuesday's releases from Microsoft, eEye provides an email bulletin detailing the specifics of each patch's underlying vulnerability, along with information to help administrators plan for patch deployment. The email is available to subscribers of eEye's "Alert" mailing list only. Subscribers also receive timely bulletins when important network security events are unfolding, such as worms and zero-day exploits.
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Free Webinar: Vulnerability Expert Forum
As a service to the network security community, eEye's Research Team - headed by Marc Maiffret, eEye's CTO/Founder and Chief Technology Officer - conducts a Vulnerability Expert Forum web seminar during the second week of every month. This Vulnerability Expert Forum enables participants to stay current on the potential risks and remediation requirements, such as those announced Tuesday, by exploring the effect that high-risk vulnerabilities and exploits have on network environments and infrastructures.
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Trial Downloads
Each of eEye's vulnerability management products is designed to help you better prepare your network for remediation activities resulting from Patch Tuesday.
Retina® Network Security Scanner

Retina proactively identifies known vulnerabilities, allowing security teams to remediate them before they are exploited.
Blink® Endpoint Vulnerability Prevention

For organizations where patching isn't an immediate option, Blink offers host-based intrusion prevention for total protection of systems, without the need for patching.
Iris® Network Traffic Analyzer

Iris captures network traffic and allows for the sessions to be played back in its native format, allowing security admins to identify and track certains types of traffic associated with today's flaws.

eEye Research's Zero-Day Tracker
eEye tracks a running list of archived and active zero-day vulnerabilities that have been publicly disclosed and/or used in attacks, and do not have any published vendor-supplied patch.
Zero-Day Tracker

Retina Audits
MS08-014
[6369] Microsoft Excel Multiple Vulnerabilities (949029) - Excel 2000
[6370] Microsoft Excel Multiple Vulnerabilities (949029) - Excel 2002
[6371] Microsoft Excel Multiple Vulnerabilities (949029) - Excel 2003
[6372] Microsoft Excel Multiple Vulnerabilities (949029) - Excel Viewer 2003
[6373] Microsoft Excel Multiple Vulnerabilities (949029) - Excel 2007
[6374] Microsoft Excel Multiple Vulnerabilities (949029) - Excel Compatibility Pack
[6375] Microsoft Excel Multiple Vulnerabilities (949029) - Office 2004 Mac
[6376] Microsoft Excel Multiple Vulnerabilities (949029) - Office 2008 Mac

MS08-015
[6365] Microsoft Outlook Malformed mailto URI Handling (949031) - Outlook 2000
[6366] Microsoft Outlook Malformed mailto URI Handling (949031) - Outlook XP
[6367] Microsoft Outlook Malformed mailto URI Handling (949031) - Outlook 2003
[6368] Microsoft Outlook Malformed mailto URI Handling (949031) - Outlook 2007

MS08-016
[6361] Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution (949030) - Office 2000
[6362] Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution (949030) - Office XP
[6363] Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution (949030) - Office 2003 / Excel Viewer 2003
[6364] Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution (949030) - Office 2004 Mac

MS08-017
[6377] Microsoft Office Web Components Remote Code Execution (933103)
[6378] Microsoft Office Web Components Remote Code Execution (933103) - Office XP