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?
The big one everyone’s whining about is CVE-2024-30698, a Remote Code Execution thing in the Windows Graphics Component. Basically, if you look at a specially crafted image file – and let’s be real, *someone* will craft that file – they can run code on your system. Fantastic. Just what we needed.
There’s also a bunch of stuff in Exchange Server (because why fix it properly the first time?), some SMB vulnerabilities (surprise, surprise), and a whole heap of other crap I honestly don’t have the energy to detail. Go read the Microsoft Security Update Guide if you actually care. Don’t come crying to me when your system gets pwned.
Oh, and they’re pushing fixes for stuff from *last month* too. Because consistency is key, apparently. Just…patch your systems, alright? Before I have to personally rewrite your firewall rules with a rusty spoon.
Related Anecdote: Back in ’08, had a sysadmin who thought “rebooting” was an optional feature. Lost half the network during a worm outbreak because he didn’t bother applying patches. Still gives me nightmares. Seriously, patch your damn systems.
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