[plug] [OT+link] Surprise release, `critical security holes in MS software' for this month

Leon Brooks leon at brooks.fdns.net
Sun Aug 25 12:54:21 WST 2002


Microsoft's take. There are a few beauties, and they hit the main Microsoft 
apps including Windows itself:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS02-047.asp

Quoting from the movie `Blue Thunder':

    Hold your noses, gentlemen. We're in deep ####.

Again.

BTW, our local Windows-intrusion-detection guru is looking into a way to work 
around the design-insecure message-passing hole (or should I say `cavern'?) 
in Windows. Pound on his door if you want to keep him interested. 
http://www.diamondcs.com.au/

Cheers; Leon



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