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MS Monthly Patch Omits Word Zero-Days
bungee jumper writes "Microsoft released four bulletins with patches for 10 vulnerabilities but there are no fixes for known MS Word zero-day flaws that are under active attack, eWeek.com reports. The January batch covers critical bugs in Excel, Outlook, and Windows. The first confirmed Windows Vista flaw, a denial-of-service issue that was publicly released on an underground hacker site in Russia, also remains unpatched." eWeek notes that Microsoft originally scheduled eight bulletins for release, but pulled four last Friday without explanation.
Microsoft released four bulletins with patches for 10 vulnerabilities but there are no fixes for known MS Word zero-day flaws that are under active attack
Well, that's because there aren't any zero-day flaws. Microsoft changed the name to ">1 day flaws", thereby solving the problem forever.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
>The patches caused more harm than good so they decided to pull them?
Not much of an excuse, considering that most Microsoft software causes more harm than good, yet they release it.
*ducks*
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> Who are you ducking from around here?
Sorry for the qui pro quack, I actually meant that Microsoft software is likely to have been conceived and released by ducks.
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It's been 18 days since I've been able to us MS Word. My boss is very unhappy-- I may lose my job.
Damn you Microsoft!
Anyone else read that as: MS Monthly Patch Omits Word "Zero-Days" ?
They aren't zero day, they're "highly relevant to your enterprise investment"!