Microsoft Identifies, Patches Another Critical RPC Hole

Posted by timothy on Wednesday September 10, 2003 @08:40AM from the capn-we-need-more-glue-down-here dept.

Dynamoo writes "Microsoft have another critical vulnerability in the Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 line of OSes, allowing a remote attacker to run arbitrary code. In other words, this probably carries about the same risk as the well-documented RPC hole exploited by MSBlaster and Nachi. A Knowledgebase article is also available. Given the experience of the RPC exploit, this probably gives administrators a couple of weeks to patch all the systems in their organisations. Again. Shucks, we haven't even finished patching the RPC flaw yet." You might want to keep your laptop's batteries charged; this NewsForge article suggests that the Blaster worm may have played a role in the August 14th blackout affecting the eastern U.S. Update: 09/10 20:41 GMT by T : Reader AcquaCow suggests that administrators with multiple machines to patch visit Microsoft's Software Update Services (whitepaper), a tool for "managing and distributing critical Windows patches."

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Another flaw by Bendebecker · 2003-09-10 08:50 · Score: 0, Redundant

Another day, another flaw in an M$ product. What else is new?

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Re:BOHICA by pheared · 2003-09-10 08:51 · Score: 0, Redundant

Heh. "0, Offtopic" for a joke.

Got humor?
Re:BOHICA by jea6 · 2003-09-10 08:54 · Score: 0, Redundant

Jeesh, some people just don't get it. I got it, though. Thx 4 the chuckle, pheared. Offtopic my arse. If I could only MM that.

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