Read the bulletin. There's no patch. It is deemed by Microsoft to be
of low impact and thus no patch has been built.
Jeffrey Walton wrote:
Hi Aras,
Given that M$ has officially shot-down all current Windows XP users by not
issuing a patch for a DoS level issue,
Can you cite a
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS09-048 - Critical: Vulnerabilities in
Windows TCP/IP Could Allow Remote Code Execution (967723):
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS09-048.mspx
PBIf Windows XP is listed as an affected product, why is Microsoft
not issuing an update for it?/BBRBy
Original Message
Subject: Re: 3rd party patch for XP for MS09-048?
From: Jeffrey Walton noloa...@gmail.com
To: nowh...@devnull.com
Cc: bugtraq@securityfocus.com, full-disclos...@lists.grok.org.uk
Date: 9/15/09 3:49 PM
Hi Aras,
Given that M$ has officially shot-down all current Windows XP
Hi Susan,
Read the bulletin. There's no patch. It is deemed by Microsoft to be of
low impact and thus no patch has been built.
I don't know how I missed that XP/SP2 and above were not being
patched. It appears that my two references are worhtless... I used to
use them in position papers!
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On 16/09/09 8:49 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
Hi Aras,
Given that M$ has officially shot-down all current Windows XP users by not
issuing a patch for a DoS level issue,
Can you cite a reference?
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/09/15/0131209
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Cheers,
Matt Riddell
Director
It's not that they aren't supported per se, just that Microsoft has
deemed the impact of DOS to be low, the ability to patch that platform
impossible/difficult and thus have make a risk calculation accordingly.
Sometimes the architecture is what it is.
Jeffrey Walton wrote:
Hi Susan,
As I understand the bulletin, Microsoft will not be releasing MS09-048 patches
for XP because, by default, it runs no listening services or the windows
firewall can protect it.
Quoting http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS09-048.mspx
If Windows XP is listed as an affected
Is this relevant?
QUOTE---
Protect to 2 for the best protection against SYN attacks. This value
adds additional delays to connection indications, and TCP connection
requests quickly timeout when a SYN attack is in progress. This
parameter is the recommended setting.
NOTE: The following
Only if you are a consumer. In a network we ALL have listening ports
out there.
elizabeth.a.gre...@gmail.com wrote:
As I understand the bulletin, Microsoft will not be releasing MS09-048 patches
for XP because, by default, it runs no listening services or the windows
firewall can protect
Susan Bradley wrote:
Only if you are a consumer. In a network we ALL have listening ports
out there.
This is simply Microsofts way of forcing you to upgrade your OS. They
pulled the same shenanigans with Windows 2000, if you do not recall.
I'd have to say, it's time to re-evaluate where you
Cloud option maybe as we go forward but right now today, this is
business making the decisions here.
Desktop, if it were that easy we'd have ripped out desktops years ago.
Businesses have to be realistic. Sometimes there is not plenty of
comparable alternatives out there.
Sometimes the
Hi Aras,
Given that M$ has officially shot-down all current Windows XP users by not
issuing a patch for a DoS level issue,
Can you cite a reference?
Unless Microsoft has changed their end of life policy [1], XP should
be patched for security vulnerabilities until about 2014. Both XP Home
and
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