ADVANCE NOTIFICATION - October 23, 2008 (Out-of-Band) MSRC Security Bulletin Release

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Microsoft is scheduled to release a security bulletin (out-of-band) to address a vulnerability in all currently supported versions of Windows. The bulletin is scheduled for release at approximately 10 A.M. Pacific Time on Thursday, October 23, 2008.

This security update will be released outside of the usual monthly security bulletin release cycle in an effort to protect customers. Microsoft recommends customers prepare their systems and networks to apply this security bulletin immediately once released to help ensure that their computers are protected from attempted criminal attacks. For more information about security updates, visit http://www.microsoft.com/protect.

The purpose of this notification is to assist customers with resource planning for this security bulletin release. The information offered in this notification is purposely general in nature to provide enough information for customers to plan for deployment without disclosing vulnerability details or other information that could put them at risk. 

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New Bulletin Summary
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Bulletin Identifier: Windows Bulletin

Maximum Severity Rating: Critical

Impact of Vulnerability: Remote Code Execution

Detection: Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer can detect whether your computer system requires this update.

Restart Requirement: The update requires a restart.
Affected Software: Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008
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Advance Notification Web Page
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The full version of the Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for this month can be found here:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-oct.mspx

Published Thu, Oct 23 2008 13:15 by sandi
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Comments

# re: ADVANCE NOTIFICATION - October 23, 2008 (Out-of-Band) MSRC Security Bulletin Release

Thursday, October 23, 2008 7:53 AM by Maik

Er... in plain language?

# There's something ironic about this announcement

Thursday, October 23, 2008 9:21 AM by Matt

What with all the "fake" out of band alerts, seeing a real one is disconcerting.

Why is MS doing it this way?  Why not just stick it into Windows Updates like their other Out of Band updates?

# re: ADVANCE NOTIFICATION - October 23, 2008 (Out-of-Band) MSRC Security Bulletin Release

Thursday, October 23, 2008 6:57 PM by sandi

:o)  There was no "plain language" at the time the article went live.  That's all we had.

I've published another alert - the vulnerability affects RPC - I have already patched my systems; I hope you have too.

@Matt, bearing in mind the fact that I'm not Microsoft, we felt that this was important enough to make sure as many people as possible knew about the update, and installed it.  The risks are not trivial (although standard firewall settings provide some protection).