Microsoft Issues Five New Security Warnings

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Microsoft Issues Five New Security Warnings

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday September 4, 2003 @02:04AM from the get-your-patch-on dept.

smelroy writes "Microsoft on Wednesday issued security bulletins for five new software vulnerabilities, including a flaw in Visual Basic for Applications that the company rated as critical. The company has posted patches for each of the flaws on its Web site. Four of the problems affect Microsoft's Office desktop software. You can read the story here and the security bulletins here."

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deja vu by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-04 02:06 · Score: 5, Funny

i'm having this funny feeling of deja vu...
1. Re:deja vu by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-04 02:11 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Could this be a glitch in the Matrix?
2. Re:deja vu by Winterblink · 2003-09-04 02:11 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  *draws dual 9mms* It's a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they patch something.
  
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3. Re:deja vu by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-04 02:18 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Re:deja vu (Score:0)
  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 04, @10:11AM (#6868436)
  Could this be a glitch in the Matrix?
  
  Re:deja vu (Score:2)
  by Winterblink (575267) on Thursday September 04, @10:11AM (#6868444)
  *draws dual 9mms* It's a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they patch something.
  
  Two identical posts at the exact same time. Now that *has* to be a glitch in the Matrix!
4. Re:deja vu by EvilTwinSkippy · 2003-09-04 02:27 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Was it 2 patches, or the same patch twice?
  
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5. Re:deja vu by RLW · 2003-09-04 02:47 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  documentary style music.
  Voice over: It's the wheel of glitches.
  
  Location: M$aFT glitch preserve.
  
  M$aFT Tour Guide: The life cycle of the glitch is an often fast and furrious one, many only living for a few short days upto a few months typically. Although on some low exposure less used systems they may obtain a Methuselahn life span of a several years.
  slight pause
  Tour Guide Continues: Here at the M$aFT glitch preserve we try to breed and raise our glitches for survival in the wild.
  
  Interupting Guide Tour member: Why do you breed and raise glitchtes anyway? Aren't there enough bugs in the wild already. I mean ...
  
  Cutting off the Tour member Tour Guide: They are glitches, not bugs. As far as the number of glitches in the wild each glitch performs important ecological functions. There are some that encourage users to upgrade their Office packages, there are others that spark the need to upgrade development IDEs and there are others still that motivate upgrades to new versions of our glitch preserve, uh, I mean OS.
6. Re:deja vu by MarkGriz · 2003-09-04 03:27 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Linus, I need an exit... fast!
  
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7. Re:deja vu by syle · 2003-09-04 04:02 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Because like a strip club, Microsoft shows you a good time, but eventually leaves you to go home depressed, penniless, and unsatisfied.
  
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Had me confused for a second by greechneb · 2003-09-04 02:06 · Score: 4, Funny

The most serious of the flaws could let an attacker execute code from an open Office application.
Confused me because I couldn't figure out why Microsoft was releasing bug reports for openoffice. (Aside from the obvious conspiracy theory that Microsoft would be trying to make the competition look bad)
Sigh... it seems a day doesn't go by by winkydink · 2003-09-04 02:08 · Score: 5, Funny

...without either e-mail from RedHat about a bug or news from MS about one. Lucky me, today I have both.

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Microsoft Issues Five New Security Warnings by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-04 02:10 · Score: 5, Funny

1.SuSE

2.Red Hat

3.Mandrake

4.Debian

5.Gentoo
Re:Why Does Slashdot Care???!! by jpsst34 · 2003-09-04 02:11 · Score: 4, Funny

"This looks like another story to laugh and mock MS. In reality, it is you zealots that look like mormons."

That doesn't make any sense. A Linux zealot can't even get a date, let alone several wives!

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NetBios Problem: Affected Platforms by burgburgburg · 2003-09-04 02:20 · Score: 4, Funny

Affected platforms include Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0 Server, and Windows Server 2003.
Welcome to the family, WS2K3!
Re:what % of Windows is patches? by Doesn't_Comment_Code · 2003-09-04 02:22 · Score: 4, Funny

And how long until the entire operating system, and all the Microsoft applications, are all just patches?

It should be a lot easier to pirate a copy of Windows when you can reconstruct the entire operating system by downloading patches directly from MS, and piecing them together like legos.

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Re:what % of Windows is patches? by Sun+Tzu · 2003-09-04 02:22 · Score: 4, Funny

The difference between Linux and Windows that the original poster was obviously referring to is this:

Linux consists of 99%+ functionality patches

Windows consists of 182%+(*) security patches, many of which, unfortunately, have security issues

(*) Totals exceed 100% due to previous patches getting patched for new security issues.
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Re:what % of Windows is patches? by brkello · 2003-09-04 03:25 · Score: 4, Funny

Oh come on, at lease be fair. I can't believe you are modded insightful....I'd say funny. If you think linux patches are all functionality, then you don't work with Linux. The real difference between linux and windows is that you have a 99.9% better chance of getting modded up if you bash Microsoft patches than if you were to say something truly interesting.

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Re:what % of Windows is patches? by gmuslera · 2003-09-04 03:31 · Score: 4, Funny

Maybe MummyOS, by this time you don't see any skin, is all patches and bandages.