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Microsoft Patches 9 Critical Vulnerabilities

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 8th Aug 2006 19:20 UTC, submitted by anonymous

"Microsoft alerted us this time about 12 vulnerabilities of which nine were rated critical and three important. There are vulnerabilities in the Server service, the DNS service, Outlook Express, PowerPoint, the Microsoft Management Console, Visual Basic for Applications, and more."

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DNS service?

by Ronald Vos on Tue 8th Aug 2006 22:13 UTC

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2005-07-06

Not the DNS service built into every desktop, but a for-server-systems-only DNS service I hope.

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RE: DNS service?

by umccullough on Tue 8th Aug 2006 22:44 in reply to "DNS service?"

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2006-01-26

well... here's the description on windows update:

A security issue has been identified in DNS Resolution that could allow an attacker to compromise your Windows-based system and gain control over it. You can help protect your computer by installing this update from Microsoft. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer.

with a link to this page: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms06-041.mspx

So, it's a problem with DNS resolution on the CLIENT SIDE!...

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RE[2]: DNS service?

by smitty on Wed 9th Aug 2006 14:38 in reply to "RE: DNS service?"

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2005-10-13

Which is very bad, but presumably the only computers that could compromise the clients would be the DNS servers, which should be fairly well trusted anyway. Or maybe I'm wrong?

Edited 2006-08-09 14:39

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