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A big Security Bulletin

It's not a good news to see how big is the last Microsoft Security Bulletin for October 2004: 10 vulnerabilities discovered (7 targeted as "critical" and 3 as "important") and 22 patches available (for different systems). All is included... patches for Windows, for Internet Explorer, for the Office Suite (Excel in particular).

It's the time again for a big patch of my machine...

I don't know exactly the minimal details of all this new flaws, but I've a little question on my mind... all of this are totally new flaws or flaws previously discovered and now re-appeared (maybe after new patches)??

Print | posted on Wednesday, October 13, 2004 11:22 AM

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# re: A big Security Bulletin

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Your comments about 'flaws on flaws' assumes the flaws are relatively new, but this assumption is not always correct. The flaws lately seem to be *newly discovered flaws* not necessarily flaws in new or recent product.

I think there must be a whole sub-culture operating that does nothing but try and find holes in MS software, no matter when it was introduced. Some recent flaws relate to products that have been on the market for over 8 years, and more.

The way things are going we will see flaws for dear old DOS 1.

Maybe the programmers of the time were operating under the old rule, "it is not what you don't know that gets you, it is what you don't know you don't know!"

Left by Tony Bishop on Oct 13, 2004 5:52 PM

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