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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. Bugger! by ackthpt · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I just spent 4 hours downloading and installing patches over the weekend and now I've got more...

    I'm just glad I don't use IE, that's all.

    i'd really like to know why it downloaded all those outlook patches, considering i don't have that installed and have never had it installed...

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    1. 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.

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

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

    1. Re:Re-Re-Releases IE Patch! by Overly+Critical+Guy · · Score: 3, Interesting

      It's amazing the U.S. economy has come to rely on something so unreliable. Think about it.

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  3. Since . . . by OverlordQ · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well, you complain about Microsoft not fixing the patch in 3 attempts when you CANT EVEN TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A PATCH AND A VULNERABILITY.

    MS06-042 is the Security Bulletin.
    KB918899 is the KB id w/ Patch.

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

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

  5. re-re-re-release. by Koragnar · · Score: 5, Funny

    When did George Lukas join Microsoft?