RSSMS: IE Patch Causing Browser Crashes
By Ed Oswald | Published August 16, 2006, 1:00 PM
Microsoft acknowledged Wednesday that a glitch in its patch intended to fix several security vulnerabilities within Internet Explorer may cause the browser to crash when visiting certain Web sites. According to the company, the issue occurs when running Internet Explorer 6 SP1 on either Windows XP or Windows 2000.
Microsoft also said that the bulletin would be re-released on August 22 along with a patch to correct the problem. The company has provided a hotfix in the meantime for affected customers to use until the new patch is ready.
IE6 crashes when a site that uses the HTTP 1.1 protocol and compression is visited, the company said in an advisory. Issues have been reported in various customer relationship management (CRM) applications, including those from Microsoft itself.
"Since MS06-042 resolves a number of security vulnerabilities we recommend customers continue to deploy the update," Microsoft Security Response Center researcher Mike Reavey said.
The problems with the Internet Explorer patch is not the first time that Microsoft has had to deal with secondary issues caused by its fixes. In April, it had to reissue a patch because certain NVidia and Hewlett Packard printer drivers were incompatible with the update.
Only affects IE with sP1 running on XP with SP1, or W 2000 with SP4. So: DON´t PANIC ! Read before write ...
Or keep your private wars going on. Nothing better to do ?
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|Fix Microsoft, please.
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|you people are ph***ing stupid. always b****ing about MS. My IE hasn't crashed once since the update, while I've visited at least 100 different websites in the last couple of days. So stop b****ing. Go kiss Firefox's a** if you hate IE so much
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|LOL
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|"Internet Explorer may cause the browser to crash when visiting certain Web sites"
So what's the difference with before the patch?
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|Funny!
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|doesn't ms take time to test these fixes before releasing them? I can understand MS's long used claim of "we cannot be responsible if our fix breaks other 3rd party applications" arguement, but come on guys, it broke access to your own CRM... at least test your s*** with in-house applications and s***.
That said, I would be happier if MS didnt even have a "patch tuesday". it puts them under the gun to always have something to give us (as there will always be some exploit that hackers will find). I would rather wait a little longer for a fix that doesnt need fixing :) am I alone in this thought?
I scrolled through my add/remove programs the other day and 98% of it is hotfixes to fix broken fixes... that isn't a good average.
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|Interesting to me that a so-called "fix" from MS would create problems.
Who would have thought this could happen?
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|considering there are an infinite amount of assorted configurations (none exactly the same) its impossible to predict every problem that is going to happen...its been aknowledged they are working on it...now go back to your cave troll
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|Isnt it interesting that there is ALWAYS someone who is there waiting to say something about how "its interesting" thats MS made a mistake? And then there is always someone else to came back and say its a mistake get over it. Why does every single article that has to do with MS get neg feedback. Is it too much that yesterdays article, or the day before article, or last months article got the same feedback? Seriously, why does everyone have to be comedians always.
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|"Why does every single article that has to do with MS get neg feedback."
It's a distinction earned due to years of mediocrity.
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|"Why does every single article that has to do with MS get neg feedback."
It could be because just about every article about Microspud's Software deals with some sort of problem it has. Primarily security problems inherent in the slapdash, stitched together way it is developed and maintained. But, I'm just conjecturing you understand. Right?
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|"Why does every single article that has to do with MS get neg feedback."
It's a distinction earned due to years of mediocrity.
Yes Desides, sort of like the Oxymoron "Microsoft Works"
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|Having the problems here at BN but thats cause were using SP1 still for some reason...at home it works fine :)
EDIT: We tried the hotfix for the issue here, and IT DIDN'T WORK. This is a first for me--I have never had any problems with hotfixes not fixing what they claim to fix. Wonder what's goin on...
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|Well, someone goofed up.
That's pretty much it.
It happens..
;-)
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|Maybe because you should be running SP2 and not SP1 which is waaaaaay outdated.
Have you checked if the SP1 configuration is supported?
Do your homework before complaining! Oh... I see... complaining is free ;)
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|blame the web developers for not accounting for crash prone browsers with poorly authored rendering engines and security mechanisms coincidentally also lacking features and owned by a multibillion dollar company which could have and in fact has in the past bought a company which has a more stable, functional, secure browser like Opera sometime in the past 5 years.
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|I have several customers experiencing the crash behavior on WinXP Pro/Home. The suggested workaround with HTTP 1.1 turned off didn't work every time. I hope that MS will fix this ASAP.
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|Had some problems with ESPN.com until this morning after the patch was installed....
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|This doesn't affect anybody running XP SP2, so I'm actually glad this happened because people still running XP SP1 (or worse, 2000) need to be reminded that they're bringing up the rear.
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|At large corps, end users can't decide what they use. I am typing this on Win 2000. As much as I hate it, this is what I have. I have MCE2005 at home.
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|They're talking about SP1 for IE 6 :)
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|I hate to disagree with you (wait, no, I *don't* hate to disagree with you), but this affects SP2 users as well. I have installed (and removed) this patch several times, and each time it is installed, it really messes up my GUI. Not just IE, but the GUI for the system. I'll wait and see if the revamped patch will work.
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|Uh oh, here come the Linux gnomes, out from their dungeon.
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|How come crap like this gets posted in every single article?
You can't get more blatant about trolling for comments.
It's funny, if you look at the history it makes you "haters" look pretty stupid. Then again, YOU folks are the ones posting all the hate.
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|You want to climb back under your rock now?
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|You sir do not know what "hate" means.....
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|You have no idea what I do and do not know.
Thanks.
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|You could atleast post a reply that makes sense.
Are you referring to your employment? If you are, that response is confusing? Unless of course, hate is what your job is.
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|stop trying to impress people with your inability for form grammatically correct, relevant arguments
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|If you could find a way to comprehend the structure of the forum, you would clearly and easily see what I was commenting on.
Thanks.
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|They just can't do anything right these days.
**rolling eyes and shaking head**
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|Oh yeah, they just can't do anything right.
*comment laced with sarcasm*
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|At least Vista won't be affected by this bug when it's released later this month.
Oh, wait...
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|hm good thing I am using ie7 as it doesnt appear to affect it plus Vista uses IE7 and this is for IE6 so how would this affect Vista?
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|It only affects IE6 according the bulletin.
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