Microsoft confesses to posting a flawed update


	Microsoft confesses to posting a flawed update

dewitte

8-28-2008 9:03 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c8a7b3fa-2016-4a3d-b27c-e8cfa481d872/2331B307-D361-4B0A-9B1C-03F20A21287F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/08/22/Microsoft_admits_posting_flawed_update_1.html?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/08/22/Microsoft_admits_posting_flawed_update_1.html" href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/08/22/Microsoft_admits_posting_flawed_update_1.html?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/08/22/Microsoft_admits_posting_flawed_update_1.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.infoworld.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/08/22/Microsoft_admits_posting_flawed_update_1.html?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/08/22/Microsoft_admits_posting_flawed_update_1.html"><P class="ArticleBody" page="1">Microsoft Corp. re-released one of its Aug. 11 security updates yesterday, explaining that it had posted an incomplete version
                           to its own download center last week.
                        </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/08/22/Microsoft_admits_posting_flawed_update_1.html?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/08/22/Microsoft_admits_posting_flawed_update_1.html"><P class="ArticleBody" page="1">The admission was the <A href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/08/14/Microsoft_reissues_July_WSUS_patch_1.html">third time in the past two months</A> that Microsoft has had to re-issue a security-related update.
                        </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/08/22/Microsoft_admits_posting_flawed_update_1.html?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/08/22/Microsoft_admits_posting_flawed_update_1.html"><P class="ArticleBody" page="1">Users who manually downloaded MS08-051 since Aug. 12 to patch <A href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/inform.do?command=search&searchTerms=Microsoft+Office">Office 2003</A> should obtain the second version as soon as possible, Microsoft said. People who obtained the update via Windows Update or
                           through their company's <A href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/inform.do?command=search&searchTerms=Microsoft+Windows+Server">Windows Server</A> Update Services (WSUS) server, or who updated other versions of Office, do not need to reinstall MS08-051.
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                           "While these versions did protect against the vulnerabilities discussed in the bulletin, they lacked other important security
                           and reliability updates," Microsoft said in the revamped MS08-051.
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