#Magic bean woody Patch#
But I am saying that a certain amount of restraint could go a long way - especially given Microsoft’s track record for botched Patch Tuesdays. I’m not saying that you need to put on rose-colored glasses and “la-la-la” your way through today’s Patch Tuesday shenanigans.
With its origins in NSA-written hacking code, WannaCry did pose a significant threat, but Microsoft had already released its WannaCry patch, MS17-010, two months before WannaCry appeared. Many patch-it-now hardliners hearken back to WannaCry, which cut a wide swath back in May, 2017. (Full disclosure: I joined the Chicken Little crowd and recommended early patching for BlueKeep, when it wasn’t necessary.) You had four months or so to get patched. The most recent real threat came in the form of BlueKeep, announced and patched in May, which actually had a working exploit that appeared in September.
#Magic bean woody full#
Granted, there have been significant security holes announced with full fanfare, including their own dedicated websites and logos. Beaumont, who named the security hole and followed it closely, never found a real-world working exploit (although there were several in-the-lab, proof of concept, sorta exploits). A few days later, without any announcement, Microsoft removed the “exploited” designation. Back in September, we had emergency warnings about two “exploited” security holes, CVE-2019-1214 and CVE-2019-1215. In December, it was CVE-2019-1458, which has since sunk into obscurity. In November we got a similar treatment for CVE-2019-1429, a scary “exploited” monster that never materialized. The security hole itself? It never amounted to a hill of beans. The fix was so badly botched that Microsoft ended up releasing four separate fixes for it, over the course of three weeks, and many (millions?) of Windows customers got caught up in the bugs. 23, Microsoft released a highly publicized out-of-band patch for an “exploited” Internet Explorer 0day known as CVE-2019-1367. On the other hand we have Kevin Beaumont, my favorite plucky porg down in the trenches, who says, simply:īack on Monday - not Tuesday, mind you, but Monday - Sept.
I get the impression that people should perhaps pay very close attention to installing tomorrow's Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates in a timely manner. On the one side, we have Will Dorman, a highly respected analyst at the federal CERT Coordination Center, who tweeted :
military and to other high-value customers/targets that manage key Internet infrastructure, and that those organizations have been asked to sign agreements preventing them from disclosing details of the flaw prior to Jan. Those sources say Microsoft has quietly shipped a patch for the bug to branches of the U.S.
#Magic bean woody update#
is slated to release a software update on Tuesday to fix an extraordinarily serious security vulnerability in a core cryptographic component present in all versions of Windows. Sources tell KrebsOnSecurity that Microsoft Corp.
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