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Microsoft Re-Re-Releases IE Patch

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the this-time-for-sure dept.

uniquebydegrees writes, "InfoWorld reports that on Tuesday Microsoft quietly released the second update for MS06-042. This is the cumulative patch for IE that actually introduced a new security hole into systems that applied the update. Microsoft re-released the patch back in August, but it now turns out that the updated patch had yet another vulnerability similar to the first, once again discovered by folks at eEye Digital Security. As with the previous hole, it concerned the handling of long URLs from web sites using HTTP 1.1 with compression."

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  1. Re-Re-Releases IE Patch! by celardore · · Score: 4, Funny

    Th-th-th-that's all folks!

  2. Does it have a picture of a train on it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I choo-choo-choose to install it.

  3. Huh by theophylline · · Score: 3, Funny

    I downloaded the IE patch a while ago and it works great. It's called Firefox.

    1. Re:Huh by WhiteWolf666 · · Score: 2, Funny

      What, the grandparent post, or IIS?

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      WhiteWolf666 an exBush supporter. All you new-school,compassionate,save the children Republicans can rot in hell
  4. re-re-re-release. by Koragnar · · Score: 5, Funny

    When did George Lukas join Microsoft?

  5. Re:Bugger! by this+great+guy · · Score: 3, Funny
    DIR C:\PROGRA~1\OUTLOO~1

    Remind me of an old joke...
    Windows 95: comes with built-in support for long filena~1.