Re: Another Low Blow From Microsoft: MBSA Failure!

["Kenneth R. van Wyk" <Ken () KRvW com>]

Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:

> Remember - if the exploit works, you have a problem.  Failure of the
> exploit to work does NOT mean you don't have a problem - somebody with
> a different version that has a critical offset set to 4 more or less
> may make swiss cheese of your network.
>  
Yes, excellent point.  Phrased somewhat differently, software testing 
only detects the presence
of a problem, not the absence of one.  I believe that that subtle but 
oh-so-important point is
not understood far too often.

Cheers,

Ken van Wyk
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KRvW Associates, LLC
CERT® Certified Computer Security Incident Handler
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