http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9180107/Microsoft_sticks_to_plan_denies_emergency_patch_for_XP_SP2 By Gregg Keizer Computerworld August 3, 2010 Although some had hoped that Microsoft would violate its own patching policy, the company yesterday stuck to its guns and declined to provide a fix for a critical bug to users running Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2). On Monday, Microsoft shipped an emergency patch for the Windows shortcut bug that attackers have been exploiting for several weeks. The vulnerability affects all versions from Windows 2000 on, including XP, Vista and Windows 7. But, per Microsoft's practice, the oldest operating systems and service packs were denied the update. "To be crystal clear, there is no security update for XP SP2," said Microsoft spokesman Christopher Budd in a Webcast on the out-of-band patch that he hosted Monday afternoon. [...] -- Visit InfoSec News! http://www.infosecnews.org/Received on Wed Aug 04 2010 - 00:31:04 PDT
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