But come on..Steve Gibson's latest "Security Now" podcast claims he has 'looked it over, and it looks good' ...
Mario Contestabile Developer , RadialPoint [EMAIL PROTECTED] Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/e/fps/3704298/ -----Original Message----- From: Adam Shostack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: January 3, 2006 5:37 PM To: Gadi Evron Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; FunSec [List] Subject: Re: WMF round-up, updates and de-mystification On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 10:28:40AM +0200, Gadi Evron wrote: | The "patch" by Ilfak Guilfanov works, but by disabling a DLL in Windows. | So far no problems have been observed by anyone using this patch. You This is incorrect. Michael Hennessy has reported problems on the patch-management mailing list: > I took the SANS advice and de-registered the dll, and also installed > Ilfak Guilfanov's "temporary patch" on 1 win2k machine and 6 XP > machines today. > > All fine except for one of the XP machines - wouldn't run IE without > gpf'ing until I uninstalled the patch - but leaving the dll > de-registered didn't seem to cause any grief anywhere, so far. > > FWIW, the iexplore crashes left this in the event log: > > Event ID 4097, source : drwatson The application, C:\Program > Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe, generated an application error > The error occurred on 01/02/2006 @ 14:49:49.709 The exception > generated was c0000005 at address 0068E3BA (<nosymbols>) > > I suspect that the patch conflicts with an application that is > specific to this machine. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=patchmanagement&m=113624877814460&w=2 _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
