MS06-049 Causing Silent Data Corruption

Uncle Mike writes "It looks like there is a problem with the recently released MS06-049 / KB920958 patch. If you have compression activated on any folder, then the compressed data is at risk from corruption. New files that are close to a multiple of 4K in size will have their last 4,000 bytes or so overwritten with 0xDF. Although this problem has been reported to Microsoft, as yet there appears to have been no official announcement. "

Comments

Re:How does something like this happen

[sm62704]

What type of programmer puts such possibilities or leaks in a program?

The same kind of programmer that comes up with "the registry" and such nonsense; the same kind of programmer that respects **AA members but not their own customers; the same kind of programmer that writes DRM; the same kind of programmer that comes up with such stupidity as active X (not to be confused with my former spouse, Evil-X); the same kind of programmer that lets buffers overflow.

...you should be extra careful when handling and altering files not your own.

As far as Microsoft is concerned, they ARE their own!

Re:If the RIAA et al subpoena you

[waif69]

This "bug" may be intentional. Microsoft has not issued an urgent patch for this, so that may be telling. If this was intentional, it may have been because the RIAA have pressured MS to corrupt/destroy music files. I suspect that there are people who put their music files on compressed drives, or that might be what MS/RIAA assumes of the users/thieves.

I, for one, have 'paid' for all the music that I possess and and don't put it on compressed drives, then again 12" 33rpm disks don't fit in my computer either.