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Microsoft has today released its first patch for 2011. The comment from Noa Bar-Yosef, Senior Security Strategist at Imperva

January 2011 by Imperva

“It is interesting to note that this release does not contain a patch for a known vulnerability. There are already reports of exploits targeting this vulnerability, and Microsoft has issued advisories on ways to block the threat. However, this release exemplifies the problems with vendor patching. Patching is a complicated process. Take for example, Oracle. Oracle issues a quarterly Critical Patch Update (CPU). According to the Independent Oracle User Group (IOUG) – patching takes from 3-6 months. Although Oracle patches are server side which in short means updating a large number of enterprise databases, and in this specific Microsoft release most of the vulnerable products are client-specific, we see the same issues arising for both:

1. Assessing the exploits as mentioned in the patch. This includes understanding the details of the exploit and whether it is even applicable to the specific user. It is important also to understand how an attack would affect the system.

2. Assessing the process of patching. Sometimes a patch may be contradictory to an already existing code, or even a work-around.

3. Patching the system itself. The patching process should be continuously reviewed. For instance, it already happened that Microsoft released a patch which broke another fix!

Yet – as this case shows, even having a patch does not necessarily mean fixing all system vulnerabilities, which leaves the user to hope for some other solution to mitigate those threats.”


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