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Microsoft Rereleases Patch to Fix Problems

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the if-at-first-you-don't-secure dept.

AbdullahHaydar writes "From CRN: 'One day after releasing a fix for an Office XP flaw, Microsoft upgraded the severity of the vulnerability to critical and re-issued a new patch to address a new attack scenario discovered in the last 24 hours.' The funny thing is that the second bug they missed with the first fix is 'critical' whereas the original bug the fix was for is 'important.'"

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  1. More information on the vulnerability by windows · · Score: 5, Informative

    More information on the vulnerability can be found here.

  2. Must have CD to install by ccnull · · Score: 5, Informative

    How aggravating that many people won't install these service packs because Microsoft requires you have the original CD to install them.

    There is a workaround: Download the larger (the 58MB one with "fullfile" in the name) file on this page here and you can do the update without a CD.

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