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| Time: 10:38 EST/15:38 GMT | News Source: SecurityFocus | Posted By: John Quigley | ||
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In recent discussions with regards to the WMF vulnerability in Microsoft products there have been may different viewpoints. For example, about whether or not to apply the unofficial patch or wait for one from the vendor. Now it is a somewhat moot point, Microsoft has released their official patch, and it works. Email feedback on our diary posts from the time of the discovery to the time of the MS advisory have been very strongly either for or against some of the stances taken by individual handlers and the Internet Storm Center as a whole. They vary from a hearty thank you, to somewhat less than flattering. | ||
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| #1 By 32132 (64.180.219.241) at 1/7/2006 9:37:46 PM |
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SANS blew it. Its too bad they let the undeserved hysteria get to them. Now their reputation is toast (except for the hardcore "I HATE MICRO$OFT" crowd)
http://silverstr.ufies.org/blog/archives/000896.html "Well, people are now seeing that the UNOFFICIAL patch from Ilfak is actually causing printing problems for some users. It seems some postscript drivers use the very code that the patch turns off. On the Full Disclosure list, there is a good explaination of how this could very well be happening. And without ANY testing of the patch, now people are finding they can't print. Whoops. Its funny that people are screaming at Microsoft for not being faster to fix this. In my post on The Cost in Fixing Bugs and How Irresponsible Disclosure doesn't Help the Matter, I brought to your attention the fact that a single change has a tonne of test cases that have to be checked against. And it has to be tested against every version of Windows in every language. Quite frankly I am rather impressed that they were able to get it into the regular patch Tuesday as quickly as they did. So in the end, wait for the official patch. And when it is available TEST IT on your own test systems before deploying it to your production systems. VMWare/Virtual PC are perfect tools for that. Ensure it works on your business systems BEFORE you go and deploy it. And that should be for any patch. Direct from the vendor or not. " |
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