RSSMicrosoft Releases Fix for VML Exploit
By Nate Mook | Published September 26, 2006, 3:47 PM
In what could be the quickest patch ever to be released by Microsoft, the company on Tuesday publicly issued a fix for the highly-publicized Vector Markup Language (VML) vulnerability affecting Office and Internet Explorer that surfaced last week and was being actively exploited by numerous attacks.
The exploits prompted two security firms to issue unofficial patches for the problem, and Microsoft promised on Friday to rush out out a fix. The company traditionally waits until its monthly Patch Tuesday to release updates, but it has issued out-of-cycle patches in the past when customers were at risk. Users can download the patch now from Windows Update.
I wonder how many vulnerabilities will be created from this "fix"???????
I also wonder if this is a real fix???????
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I'm sure it wasn't rushed out of the door what with all that publicity from a 3rd party patching their OS quicker than they could... :-)
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No reboot. I'm not mad at MS anymore. :)
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"No reboot"
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Yeah.
For the first while, most updates didn't require
a reboot.
But lately ALL updates have.
Maybe Microsoft has turned over a new leaf.
Nah !
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The Computer Rodent
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It does require a reboot if VGX.DLL is loaded at the time of install. This DLL would only be loaded if you were browsing a page containing VML in IE (or any app using embedded IE) but since the Automatic Updates client tells people that they "can continue to work" during installation, there will be some people who get prompted to reboot.
Every update which requires a reboot does so for a reason. You don't often hear the reasons because they are too technical or uninteresting to the majority of Microsoft's 800 million users worldwide (keeping in mind that it only takes 400 million+1 to represent a majority).
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"Nice move Microsoft!
Fast!"
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It's great seeing Microsoft being responsive
to their customer's needs for a change.
If this keeps up, Microsoft could reverse it's
negative puiblic image !
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The Computer Rodent
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Got mine from Automatic updates today. Nice move Microsoft! Fast!
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