XP SP3 and Vista SP1 Critical Security Patches
The latest Critical security patches for Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Vista Service Pack 1 are available from Microsoft.
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13.8.2008 Microsoft Patches Critical Vista SP1 and XP SP3 Vulnerabilities
It's patching time yet again for Microsoft, as the software giant made available no less than eight security bulletins on December 9, 2008, designed to plug vulnerabilities in a range of products including Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3.
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10.12.2008 Vista SP2 and XP SP3 June 2009 Patches ISO Image Available
This month’s release addresses 31 total vulnerabilities with 15 rated as “1” on our Exploitability Index, meaning there is a high likelihood that reliable exploit code may be developed in the next 30 days,” stated Jerry Bryant, Sr. security program manager lead.
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12.6.2009 XP SP3 and Vista SP1: DirectX 9 and DirectX 10 Patches Updated
Two security bulletins, from December 2007 and from June 2008 respectively, affecting the DirectX components of a wide range of Windows operating systems including Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3, have been updated.
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17.7.2008 Two Unofficial IE Patches Block Attacks
eWeek reports that two well-respected Internet security companies (eEye and Determina) have released unofficial patches to correct the vulnerability being exploited to load spyware, bots and Trojan downloaders on Windows machines.
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29.3.2006 Third-party Microsoft patches could get new life
It has been nearly three years since Microsoft moved to a monthly patch release schedule as a way to rein in some of the chaos that had begun to engulf its vulnerability reporting and repair efforts.
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1.8.2006 Microsoft Patches 23 Vulnerabilities
As part of its monthly security update cycle, Microsoft on Tuesday released a dozen security bulletins. Nine of them are tagged critical, the company's highest severity rating. The alerts give details of 20 flaws in Windows and three in Office, all of which Microsoft has now fixed.
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9.8.2006 Microsoft pulls four planned patches
Microsoft has pulled four bulletins from its announced list of Patch Tuesday fixes, but did not specify why it was backpedaling on the security releases.
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6.1.2007 Microsoft to release four critical patches
Microsoft announced plans Thursday to issue four "critical" security bulletins next week that address vulnerabilities in its Windows Mail, Internet Explorer and Windows XP.
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8.6.2007 Microsoft preps four Office patches
Microsoft is planning at least four security updates next week in its Patch Tuesday release for March.
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11.3.2008 Microsoft to supply ALL patches to All users
It’s time for Microsoft’s policy of tying the availability of Windows Updates to Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) validation to end.
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2.4.2009 No Critical Patches for Vista SP2
Come June 9, 2009, Microsoft plans to release no less than 10 security bulletins for various supported releases of Internet Explorer, Windows client and server operating systems and the Office System.
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5.6.2009 6 patches for July patch Tuesday
Microsoft on Tuesday will issue six security bulletins for patch Tuesday reports PC Magazine.
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11.7.2009 September 2009 Security Patches
This month MS released five critical bulletins to address vulnerabilities in Windows and protect customers from two types of threats.
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9.9.2009 Microsoft Delays 11 Patches To Push One
The company has made delivering the patch for the vulnerability cited in security bulletin MS06-040 its highest security priority, letting other patches slide until later, a program manager confirms.
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16.8.2006 Microsoft Patches 28 Security Flaws
Microsoft scaled back its October patch event by one on Tuesday, electing to release ten patches. Five patches are intended for Windows, the highest rating of those being critical; four for Office, with the highest rating also being critical; and one moderate patch for the .NET framework.
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12.10.2006 Microsoft Patches Windows Cursor Flaw
As expected, Microsoft has released security update MS07-017, which patches a critical vulnerability in Windows Animated Cursor Handling. The company says it was working on the fix since December, and has posted it early due to reports of attacks.
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4.4.2007 Exploits Hot on the Heels of Microsoft's Patches
Exploit code for two of Tuesday's patches have been posted to mailing lists by researchers. Exploits appeared within hours for two of the bugs that Microsoft Corp. fixed Tuesday.
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14.6.2007 Critical MS Office Patches Coming
It is likely that this batch of patches will finally provide cover for well-known—and already exploited—vulnerabilities in Microsoft Excel.
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7.3.2008 Four important Microsoft patches due Tuesday
Microsoft will release four security patches for its Windows, Exchange, and SQL products next Tuesday, all rated "important."
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4.7.2008 Next "Patch Tuesday" to include 4 Critical Patches
For this month’s “Patch Tuesday” (September 9th) Microsoft is planning to release 4 critical updates.
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5.9.2008 Incoming - Real and fake Win7 patches
Microsoft has made available a patch to a Windows 7 bug in the Release Candidate (RC) and is preparing to roll out some “fake” test patches to verify Windows 7’s automatic-updating abilities this week.
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13.5.2009 It's Time to Face the Ugly Truth, SP3 or No SP3, the Clock Is Ticking for Windows XP
As 2008 has kicked in, it's now time to face the ugly truth. The clock is ticking for Windows XP. And while Microsoft may view this as a natural stage in the evolution of a product introduced all the way in 2001, a healthy proportion of end-users and businesses will fail to see eye to eye with the company on this one.
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5.1.2008 Microsoft patches Windows Live Signup Programme
Microsoft have patched a loophole in the Windows Live Signup program that allowed users to register any iteration of live..
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13.11.2006 Upcoming Microsoft patches focus on media formats
Microsoft will issue seven security updates next Tuesday, including critical sets of patches for Windows and Internet Explorer.
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7.12.2007 Microsoft to release 12 Security patches next Tuesday!
Bink is reporting that on Tuesday April 10, 2007 Microsoft plans to release the following updates as part of its Patch Tuesday cycle.
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7.2.2008 Microsoft patches critical Windows kernel flaw
Microsoft patched critical vulnerabilities in the Windows kernel that could be remotely exploited by an attacker to gain control of a computer. In all three bulletins patching eight Windows flaws were released Tuesday as part of Microsoft's monthly patching cycle.
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11.3.2009 Microsoft February Patch Tuesday: 12 security patches
At this time no additional information on these bulletins such as details regarding severity or details regarding the vulnerability will be made available until 13 February 2007.
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10.2.2007 Patch Tuesday: MS plans 5 Security Patches, 4 for Windows
Bink is reporting that on Tuesday April 10, 2007 Microsoft plans to release the following updates as part of its Patch Tuesday cycle.
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6.4.2007 Microsoft preps 133 patches for Windows DNS hole
Microsoft plans to have a fix for the recently disclosed Windows Domain Name System service flaw available by its May 8 patch day at the latest.
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23.4.2007Microsoft Remedies 14 Flaws in Nine Patches
Microsoft fixed a total of 14
flaws across 9 patches on
Tuesday, with six of those
patches reaching critical
status. While the number of
patches is far from the
Redmond company's record,
this month could prove
difficult for administrators...
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15.08.2007Microsoft patched critical Windows bug in XP SP3 early
The appearance and disappearance of a Windows XP installation snafu indicates that Microsoft patched a critical vulnerability in XP's
still-unfinished Service Pack 3 (SP3) weeks before it fixed any other version of Windows. The glitch, which sent some PCs into an endless round of
reboots, was strangely similar to one faced by Vista users in February. Attackers have already tried to exploit that bug, which was patched last
Tuesday -- as it turned out, two weeks after the newest build of Windows XP SP3 was released with the flaw fixed.
According to reports from
multiple users on a Microsoft support newsgroup, PCs began rebooting immediately after they had been updated to SP3. "I have just updated my pc from
xp sp2 to sp3," said a user identified as "yaojinglin" in a message to a SP3 support forum last Thursday. "The installation was successful, but
when I reboot my pc after the installation finished, my pc started to reboot again and again."
On the XP SP3 support threads, a Microsoft
representative named Shashank Bansal stepped into the rebooting discussion, which was beginning to seem as endless as the rebooting itself. Bansal
asked for more information, then offered an explanation: "This issue happens with 3311 build of XP SP3. It happens because KB948590 stops
installation of SP3 version of gdi32.dll on the system due to file-version differences."
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15.04.2008Despite rumors, Windows XP SP3 still not quite ready
With Windows Vista Service Pack 1 out the door, Microsoft was largely expected to release Windows XP SP3 last week or this week. It didn't, instead
making public a refresh build of SP3 Release Candidate 2...
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26.03.2008Exchange, Windows Fixes on Tap
Microsoft will issue three
patches as part of its monthly
Patch Tuesday next week, of
which at least two have been
rated "critical," the
company said. It is likely
that these patches would fix
various code execution flaws.
Two of the patches will be for
Windows, with another for
Exchange...
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05.05.2006Microsoft continues to warn of IE8 lock-in for XP SP3 users
Last year when Microsoft launched Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, Jane Maliouta announced that consumers using Windows XP SP3 would be locked-in with the
IE8 if they had installed the IE8 beta prior to upgrading to SP3. Microsoft again yesterday issued that same warning to it's consumers. If you are
still one of the millions of users on Windows XP with SP3 installed, Microsoft has provided crucial steps to follow if you're ready to upgrade to
IE8 RC1. You can obtain IE8 RC1 from the links on this page. To see if you're one of the people who will have IE8 locked in, follow these steps.
Is your computer running Windows XP SP3?
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27.01.2009Cisco Patches Router, Call
Manager Software
Patches address several
different security
vulnerabilities...
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20.01.200612 Patches Coming for Patch
Tuesday
Microsoft said Thursday that
it would release twelve
patches as part of its August
Patch Tuesday, with ten of
them intended for Windows and
two fixing issues in Microsoft
Office. Both groups of patches
are expected to have at least
one "critical" issue...
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04.08.2006Adobe patches Reader, Acrobat and Flash
On Tuesday, Adobe Systems Inc. issued patches for a five-month old vulnerability in Reader and Acrobat 8.1.2, and today, six critical patches were
released for Flash Player 9...
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06.11.2008Cisco Patches Bug Unveiled at
Black Hat
Controversial talk at
hackers' conference described
vulnerability that has promted
several patches...
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04.11.2005Microsoft Issues 5 Critical Patches
November's Patch Tuesday has
brought with it five
"critical" patches
correcting 11 security
vulnerabilities, along with an
"important" fix for
two vulnerabilities related to
Novell's NetWare. Among the
list of patches is one for a
highly publicized flaw in
Microsoft's XML Core Services
component...
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15.11.2006XP SP3 Goes on Automatic Updates This Thursday
Although a Microsoft manager had mentioned that XP SP3 would arrive "shortly" to Automatic Updates on Monday, the timetable became specific as the
company quietly said today it would release the upgrade on Thursday at 10 a.m. PDT. Microsoft will add Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) to Windows
Update at that time, and trigger its automatic download and installation for users who have left the operating system's update service at its
default "Automatic (recommended)" setting.
" Updated applicability rules and updated metadata to target the update to Automatic
Update channel, " read a Microsoft support document revised Tuesday after the company unveiled its monthly security patches . " The Automatic
Update change will be published at 10:00 A.M. on July 10. " Microsoft delayed the distribution of Windows XP SP3 twice this spring, but the July
10 date seems firm; it was included in the cumulative list of all updates available via Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), the server-side update
tool many businesses use, as well as via the client-side Windows Update (WU) and Microsoft Update Web-based services. A Microsoft spokeswoman,
however, was not able to immediately confirm that July 10 will, in fact, be XP SP3's automatic update debut.
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09.07.2008Microsoft Patches 28 Security Flaws
Microsoft scaled back its
October patch event by one on
Tuesday, electing to release
ten patches. Five patches are
intended for Windows, the
highest rating of those being
critical; four for Office,
with the highest rating also
being critical; and one
moderate patch for the .NET
framework...
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11.10.2006Windows XP SP3 moves closer to completion
Beta testers have received access to a release candidate of Windows XP Service Pack 3, but general consumers still have a long wait until they'll see
SP3 available for download...
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20.11.2007Three critical patches on tap from Microsoft
Next Tuesday's regular monthly distribution of security patches will include three for DirectX, Windows Media, and Internet Explorer...
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07.12.2007New Features Discovered in Windows XP SP3: Is It Better Than Vista?
The principal reason given for the tremendous under-the-hood changes to Windows unveiled early this year in Vista was the need to overhaul the
security model. Now it seems many of those changes are also coming to XP in SP3...
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10.10.20078 Critical Flaws Patched by
Microsoft
Microsoft has released its
super-sized Patch Tuesday,
heavy on "critical"
patches, with eight rated as
such. Four other patches
rounded out the list of
updates, with three patches
rated "important" and
one rated "moderate."..
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14.06.2006Bevy of critical Office fixes headline February patches
Microsoft plans to issue twelve patches next Tuesday, five of which deal with issues in its Office productivity suite...
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09.02.2008XP SP3 RC Preview Clarification
I just noticed a post at
Bink.nu where Steven mentions that the XP SP3 RC Preview is now available on Connect. Just to clarify, Microsoft have not
released any new build of XP SP3 to the general Windows Beta Program. While there is the possibility that he may be talking about a different private
beta program on Connect, the main Windows Beta Program on Connect which houses the Vista SP1/Server 2008/XP SP3 betas was last updated with the XP SP3
Beta (Build 3205) in early October.
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24.10.2007Microsoft to push XP SP3 via AutoUpdate July 10
Microsoft is going to release Windows XP Service Pack (SP) 3 via its Automatic Update (AU) service on Thursday July 10, company officials confirmed
this week.
The client team has been vague about when it planned to push the latest version of XP to users. "Early summer" and
"sometime soon"were favorite comebacks when officials were asked for an AU timeframe for SP3.
Customers who have automatic updates
turned on but who don’t want XP SP3 to be downloaded to user desktops this week — for whatever reasons — need to deploy the Microsoft Service Pack
blocker toolkit to delay pushed-delivery of SP3.
While Microsoft will begin pushing SP3 tomorrow, not all users will receive it
immediatly, as the company will be staggering the rollout.
Microsoft has postponed and temporarily halted the distribution of SP3 a
couple of times this year because of compatibility and performance problems.
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10.07.200810 Windows, 2 Office Patches
Issued
Microsoft on Tuesday issued
twelve security bulletins,
including 7 "critical"
patches for Windows and 2
critical updates for Office.
Three other
"important" patches
were released for Windows. All
told, Microsoft fixed over 20
vulnerabilities in the two
products...
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