Re: 3rd party patch for XP for MS09-048?

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Susan,

> Read the bulletin.  There's no patch.  It is deemed by Microsoft to be of
> low impact and thus no patch has been built.
I don't know how I missed that XP/SP2 and above were not being
patched. It appears that my two references are worhtless... I used to
use them in position papers!
* http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifepolicy
* http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifeselect

Jeff

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Susan Bradley <sbradcpa@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Read the bulletin.  There's no patch.  It is deemed by Microsoft to be of
> low impact and thus no patch has been built.
>
> Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>>
>> Hi Aras,
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Given that M$ has officially shot-down all current Windows XP users by
>>> not
>>> issuing a patch for a DoS level issue,
>>>
>>
>> Can you cite a reference?
>>
>> Unless Microsoft has changed their end of life policy [1], XP should
>> be patched for security vulnerabilities until about 2014. Both XP Home
>> and XP Pro's mainstream support ended in 4/2009, but extended support
>> ends in 4/2014 [2]. Given that we know the end of extended support,
>> take a look at bullet 17 of [1]:
>>
>>    17. What is the Security Update policy?
>>
>>    Security updates will be available through the end of the Extended
>>    Support phase (five years of Mainstream Support plus five years of
>>    the Extended Support) at no additional cost for most products.
>>    Security updates will be posted on the Microsoft Update Web site
>>    during both the Mainstream and the Extended Support phase.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> I realize some of you might be tempted to relay the M$ BS about "not
>>> being
>>> feasible because it's a lot of work" rhetoric...
>>>
>>
>> Not at all.
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>> [1] http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifepolicy
>> [2] http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifeselect
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Aras "Russ" Memisyazici
>> <nowhere@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hello All:
>>>
>>> Given that M$ has officially shot-down all current Windows XP users by
>>> not
>>> issuing a patch for a DoS level issue, I'm now curious to find out
>>> whether
>>> or not any brave souls out there are already working or willing to work
>>> on
>>> an open-source patch to remediate the issue within XP.
>>>
>>> I realize some of you might be tempted to relay the M$ BS about "not
>>> being
>>> feasible because it's a lot of work" rhetoric... I would just like to
>>> hear
>>> the thoughts of the true experts subscribed to these lists :)
>>>
>>> No harm in that is there?
>>>
>>> Aras "Russ" Memisyazici
>>> Systems Administrator
>>> Virginia Tech
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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