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Skeletons in Microsoft’s Patch Day closet | |
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| Time: 00:02 EST/05:02 GMT | News Source: ZDNet | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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Last Tuesday, when Microsoft released the MS07-030 bulletin to fix a remote code execution hole in Visio, the first line in the executive summary caught my attention: This important update resolves two privately reported vulnerabilities in addition to other security issues identified during the course of the investigation. (emphasis mine) This is the first time I’ve seen Microsoft prominently admit to silently fixing vulnerabilities in its bulletins — a controversial practice that effectively reduces the number of publicly documented bug fixes (for those keeping count) and affects patch management/deployment decisions. | ||
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