Seriously?! More Vulnerabilities?

Right, listen up. Apparently, some clowns over at Microsoft are STILL letting shit slip through in their updates. This month’s patch Tuesday is a goddamn mess of 76 vulnerabilities. SEVENTY-SIX! Like they don’t have enough people getting paid to test this crap before it goes live?

The really fun ones, because *of course* there are “really fun” ones, involve remote code execution in things like the Windows Graphics Component (because everything needs to be a security risk, apparently) and SMB. SMB! Seriously?! We’re still dealing with SMB vulnerabilities? It’s 2024, not 1998.

There’s also some stuff about Exchange Server getting hammered again – surprise, surprise. And don’t even get me started on the Azure shenanigans. It’s a whole heap of privilege escalation and denial-of-service potential. Basically, if you’re running anything Microsoft, patch it. Now. Before I have to personally come over there and rewrite your entire infrastructure.

Oh, and they’ve got a “critical” vulnerability in .NET Framework too. Because why not? Just pile on the misery. The ISC diary has all the details if you want to waste your time reading about it yourself. Don’t come crying to me when your systems are compromised.

Honestly, I’m starting to think these companies *want* us to be busy. It keeps the consulting gigs coming, doesn’t it?

Source: SANS ISC Diary – You’ve Been Warned

Related Anecdote: Back in ’08, I had a client who refused to patch their Windows XP machines because “it would break things.” Broke things?! They were *already* broken! Three days later they got hit with Conficker. Three. Days. I spent the next week cleaning up that mess while they whined about lost productivity. Don’t be that client.

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