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  • Problems with the December Black Tuesday patches

    Posted on December 10th, 2009 at 20:22 woody 2 comments

    Windows Secrets Newsletter just hit the stands, and Susan Bradley’s column has a bunch of information about problems with December Black Tuesday fixes.

    The most bizarre of the bunch is the bug in the patch for WordPad. (Yes, WordPad.) MS09-073/KB 973904 can, under certain circumstances, prevent WordPad from opening files. MS documents a registry change that fixes the problem in KB 973904.

    Susan’s column goes into great detail on several additional fixed security problems that aren’t in “official” Security Bulletins. Interesting reading.

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    2 responses to “Problems with the December Black Tuesday patches”

    1. Yuhong Bao December 14th, 2009 at 05:22

      “The most bizarre of the bunch is the bug in the patch for WordPad. (Yes, WordPad.) MS09-073/KB 973904 can, under certain circumstances, prevent WordPad from opening files. MS documents a registry change that fixes the problem in KB 973904.”
      Actually, that was a deliberate security change by MS to prevent converters from accidentally loading. The vulnerablity is fixed, it is just a defense in depth.

    2. rc primak December 17th, 2009 at 00:37

      A bug by any other name would smell as foul.The Registry Hack required to implement this Patch is unconscionable.

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