Microsoft Fixes Another August Patch

Microsoft released a new version of its patch intended to fix a problem in Windows Server service, which was highly publicized as a possible worm threat, saying the original patch could cause programs to fail if they request more than one gigabyte of contiguous memory. According to an advisory on the issue, the problem only affects 32-bit versions of applications. Native 64-bit programs are not affected.

The issues have appeared on 32-bit versions of Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows Server 2003 with SP1 for Itanium-based systems, x64-based versions of Windows Server 2003, and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition. The patch is not the first from this month's batch to cause problems; Microsoft's cumulative patch for Internet Explorer had to be reworked after the company found it was causing the browser to crash when visiting certain Web sites.