MSIE Uber-patch Of The Month · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday May 16, 2002 @05:50AM from the windstorm-'97 dept.

mkraft writes "Microsoft released another security patch for Internet Explorer to fix 6 'new' vulnerabilities. Info on the patch can be obtained via download or Windows Update. Not sure what 6 things the patch fixed, but I'm assuming they fixed 6 of the 14 known exploits listed at http://jscript.dk/unpatched/" Maybe not even all six -- the maintainer of the above URL claims in a post to Bugtraq that Microsoft got some facts wrong and "patched a symptom" of one of the vulnerabilities, "not its root cause," and that IE5 and IE5.5 remain unpatched with the same "Critical" vulnerability. Also, please compare to previous MSIE Uber-Patches Of The Month: December 2001, 3+? holes in IE; March 2002, 2+? holes in IE; April 2002, 2+? holes in Mac IE.

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Here we go again... by bradasch · 2002-05-16 06:09 · Score: 0, Redundant

Another MS bashing article: They found another bug in a MS software! Those f*cking bastards! How can they release software with bugs!
It's the same-old double-standard /. If this was the linux kernel or mozilla or KDE or whatever, the crowd would be delighted at the wonders of open-source, and how fast they can fix the bugs.

Don't you think it's time for a break and for news that really matter?