Re: [Full-disclosure] Microsoft issues out-of-band patch

["Some Guy Posting To Full Disclosure" <fd.leach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here's an article explaining why Microsoft delays their patching:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patch_Tuesday>

Specifically this bit:
"In order to reduce the costs related to the deployment of patches,
Microsoft introduced the concept of Patch Tuesday. The idea is that
security patches are accumulated over a period of one month, and then
dispatched all at once on an anticipated date which system
administrators can prepare for."

On 12/19/08, Bipin Gautam <bipin.gautam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> stop putting so much of attention to 0-day and possible use of it by
> government to get into a terrorist pc.
>
> if breaking into someones pc was a matter of national security
> importance 0-day may provide a easy leverage but you really dont need
> a 0-day to get into someones pc, neither you'd need a already
> existing/known backdoor, neither you'd need to bruteforce into the
> advisory or a physical access to it.
>
> all they need to do is poison a unsigned executable/plugin/update with
> a backdoor instead, that is being downloaded to the advisory computer
> over an unencrypted connection if you can control the network gateway
> or have isp level access. such attacks "could" work regardless of the
> OS or patch level.
>
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