Re: MS03-040 October cumulative patch for IE

[Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>]

"Jerry Heidtke" <jheidtke () fmlh edu> wrote:

> Just when we got used to Wednesday afternoon security bulletins from
> Microsoft, they decide to release one on Friday evening.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms03-040.asp
>
> It allegedly fixes the object tag/hta types of vulnerabilities.

Yep -- this deviation from "patches are releasesed on Wednesday" 
practice presumably suggests how darn critical MS rates this bug.

You have to wonder though when they'll work out there are thirty-
something others that in various combinations are just as bad...

   http://www.pivx.com/larholm/unpatched/

Perhaps it will take more worms and clearly malicious use such as we 
have seen with the Object Data Type flaw, including the associated 
media coverage, to get them all fixed too??


-- 
Nick FitzGerald
Computer Virus Consulting Ltd.
Ph/FAX: +64 3 3529854

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