• Microsoft releases KB 4055038, a dot matrix printer fix for bugs introduced last week

    Posted on November 21, 2017 at 19:22 CST by • Comment in the Forums

    Last week I talked about a bug in all of this month’s Windows security patches that caused Epson dot matrix printer drivers to fail. The bug appeared in:

    Microsoft didn’t acknowledge that the bug also appeared in the three Security-only manual updates, but I reported at the time that the bug apparently applied to those patches as well.

    Sometime in the past few hours, Microsoft released a fix for the bug in their security patch. The fix, called KB 4055038,  only applies to Win 7/Server 2008 R2, 8.1 and Server 2012, but at least Microsoft confirmed that the bug does appear in the manual Security-only patch for all three products. Here’s Microsoft’s list of the patched products:

    • Win 8.1 2017-11 Monthly Rollup – KB4048958
    • Win 8.1 2017-11 Security-only update – KB4048961
    • Win 7/Server 2008 R2 2017-11 Monthly Rollup – KB4048957
    • Win 7/Server 2008 R2 2017-11 Security-only update – KB4048960
    • Server 2012 2017-11 Monthly Rollup – KB4048959
    • Server 2012 2017-11 Security-only update – KB4048962

    The Monthly Rollups are coming down the Windows Update chute. For those of you manually installing Security-only patches,you’ll have to head over to the Microsoft Update Catalog.

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