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Diploid
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Microsoft Issues Patch For Critical Bugs In Last Month's Patch For Critical Bugs
#5991872 - 08/24/06 06:51 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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MS's last patch installed a new bug which has to be re-patched.
This would be funny if it wasn't so serious.
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Microsoft has fixed a bug in a critical security patch that may have been causing problems for some Windows Server 2003 users.
The bug is in the critical MS06-040 Windows Server services update, released earlier this month. It affects programs that use up very large chunks of memory on some versions of Windows. According to Microsoft, programs such as Microsoft Navision 3.7, which require allocations of more than 1GB of memory, can crash after the update is installed.
Most Windows systems do not experience the bug, but Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and the 64-bit version of Windows XP Professional Edition are affected. Microsoft's hotfix for the problem can be found on its website.
The majority of widely used applications allocate memory in chunks that are smaller than the 1GB threshold blamed for the bug, so there have not been widespread reports of problems with this patch, according to Johannes Ullrich, chief research officer for the SANS Institute.
More problems More troublesome has been the MS06-042 update for Internet Explorer, which has caused browser crashes while using Web-based applications such as PeopleSoft, Siebel, and Unicenter. Microsoft issued a hotfix for this update earlier in the week and is promising to reissue the buggy update next Tuesday.
SANS is tracking the status of Microsoft's updates on its website.
Microsoft issued a total of 12 updates this month, fixing 23 vulnerabilities. But it's had the most problems with the more serious of these fixes.
"MS06-040 and MS06-042 were probably the most critical issues," he said. "It's unfortunate that they've had problems with both of them."
http://pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/pcw.nsf/feature/3BA61B08FAD2CFCACC2571D10072C6B0
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Catalysis
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Re: Microsoft Issues Patch For Critical Bugs In Last Month's Patch For Critical Bugs [Re: Diploid]
#5992044 - 08/24/06 09:33 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Just wait for MS Vista. Theres gonna be all kinds of new bugs.
On a side note..
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Most Windows systems do not experience the bug, but Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and the 64-bit version of Windows XP Professional Edition are affected.
I guess its a good thing no one uses Windows XP64 (except for graphics and video editing that is).
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Wasteland
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Re: Microsoft Issues Patch For Critical Bugs In Last Month's Patch For Critical Bugs [Re: Catalysis]
#5993049 - 08/24/06 03:54 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Most Windows systems do not experience the bug, but Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and the 64-bit version of Windows XP Professional Edition are affected.
Fuck, looks like another update after a week of updating everything on my computer. :|
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Re: Microsoft Issues Patch For Critical Bugs In Last Month's Patch For Critical Bugs [Re: Wasteland]
#5993700 - 08/24/06 07:19 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Linux > *
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