Microsoft amends Blaster fix

Spinner

Microsoft today released an update for its antidote for the Windows based vulnerability infamously exploited by the Blaster worm. The reason for the amendment is simply because that since the original release of the patch, many more variants of the worm have been since released, so Microsoft, being the security consious firm they are , have decided to make sure our Windows installations are still safe from the delight which is the Blaster worm.

NOTE: This new patch is to be used aswell as the original Blaster patch released.

The July patch is effective at stopping the flaw Blaster exploits. The trouble is there are more than one flaw with Microsoft's implementation of an RPC interface for Distributed Component Object Model services (DCOM). This gives rise to security vulnerabilities not fixed by the first patch.

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-039.asp">Revised Microsoft Bulletin<a>
<a target="_blank" href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/c/d/d/cdd7ac92-e4cc-4b1e-bc2f-7a61b46b23bf/WindowsXP-KB824146-x86-ENU.exe">Download Patch<a> (1.47MB)
You could also just run Windows Update, the patch can be obtained from there as well

The full story:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/32761.html

GHoosdum

I love this quote:

The trouble is there are more than one flaw with Microsoft's implementation of an RPC interface for Distributed Component Object Model services (DCOM).