Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for February 2015

[1PW]

https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/ms15-feb

 

February 2015 Updates
MSRC Team MSRC Team
10 Feb 2015 10:07 AM

Today, as part of Update Tuesday, we released nine security bulletins – three rated Critical and six rated Important in severity, to address 56 unique Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) in Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, and Microsoft Server software.

[daledoc1]

Thanks.

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The following is offered "as is":

 

At least 2 reports of trouble with KB 3001652 already:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-windows_update/kb3001652-visual-studio-2010-feb-10-2015-windows/589eee8e-cb6c-424e-b061-b6c6e207bc38

http://www.sevenforums.com/windows-updates-activation/360891-anyone-installed-todays-updates-yet-issues.html

 

YMMV

[daledoc1]

Update, "as is":

 

It appears that MS may have pulled KB 3001652:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-windows_update/kb3001652-visual-studio-2010-feb-10-2015-windows/589eee8e-cb6c-424e-b061-b6c6e207bc38?page=2

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Search/result.aspx?q=Kb3001652&form=MSHOME

http://www.sevenforums.com/windows-updates-activation/360891-anyone-installed-todays-updates-yet-issues-post3002486.html#post3002486

http://www.askwoody.com/2015/visual-studio-patch-rollup-kb-3001652-widespread-freezing-problems/

 

And: They may have added a new patch for IE10 under Win7/64 (KB 3034196)???

 

(And today's patches do not fix a known XSS vulnerability according to this article at ZDNet: http://www.zdnet.com/article/february-2015-patch-tuesday/?tag=nl.e589&s_cid=e589&ttag=e589&ftag=TREc64629f)

 

Another Black Tuesday, another mess.

I am waiting to hear from Susan Bradley and Woody Leonhard before proceeding.

 

 

[Firefox]

Well I had 21 updates to do including KB 3001652.... I asked my computer to check for updates once again and it went through its motions...

 

I now have 20 updates and no KB 3001652, so it does indeed look as if MS pulled it...

 

Edit:

 

I installed the 20 updates and rebooted and so far so good (at least on one computer anyway)... keeping fingers crossed...

[AdvancedSetup]

Just got to love Window Updates. That is the type of work I used to do on a daily basis DD. Had to read, read, read, analyze, test deploy, rescan, retest, over and over before pushing out updates to thousands of computers. Glad those days are over as it was a very tedious job.

 

Ran the first round of update this morning.

 

 

Rebooted and got the following.

 

 

Only 3GB of updates this time around.

 

[1PW]

I imagine that Adobe's Flash Player folks are glad the spotlight has changed direction for the next few days...

[Firefox]

Looks like M$ has re-enabled KB 3001652 update again, because I am being offered it once more, I have installed it successfully on at least 6 computers thus far and no ill effects just yet anyway....

[AdvancedSetup]

Wow... I uninstalled Office 2013 from a computer as it was having some issues that could not be fixed and rebooted. Then reinstalled Office 2013 and checked for updates. 1.5GB of updates. That's almost bigger than the installer DVD. 

[David H. Lipman]

It's not funny.  If you you don't have High Speed Broadband, what do you do ?

[Hardhead]

Looks like M$ has re-enabled KB 3001652 update again, because I am being offered it once more, I have installed it successfully on at least 6 computers thus far and no ill effects just yet anyway....

Yep, I'm seeing it listed as of now but not last night when I installed 16 updates.

I also just got the Security Update for Internet Explorer 9 for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KB3034196) tonight too.

It installed just fine now I'm going for KB3001652. So that makes a total of 18 updates on my Vista system.

 

Last time MS had a big screw up I believe was a few months ago and I got off easy with no issues but unfortunately some others did not and had issues booting there systems. You would think as long as they have been doing this that they would not have all the problems that they do. 

Edited February 12, 2015 by Hardhead

[Hardhead]

It's not funny.  If you you don't have High Speed Broadband, what do you do ?

Can you imagine dialup download times. Years ago I use to just manually go to the download site and get them individually and install them one by one. That was the best way I found that worked better instead of trying to get them all at one time.

[CWB]

19 *important updates* and one optional : 219 MB .

 

i recently installed orifice 2013 on a friends comp ... about the same amount of *updates* as ron had .

[Firefox]

Back in the day of dial up the files were smaller in size, smaller foot prints and what not.

 

Now with high speed internet, the coders really don't take into account the poor folks on dial up.  They don't care about those folks.  Heck I have to put limits on attachments in our email system or else folks would try to email 100MB files or larger...  One time I went to a ladies house because she said her email would not download or work.  When I checked it there was a message in the outbox.  She was trying to email a DVD movie to her sister.  it was over 4GB in size.

[AdvancedSetup]

Arg... not sure what I triggered but wound up with another 1GB update today. I'm going to have look at removing the updates backup files... they're starting to consume way too much space on my SSD

[Firefox]

Yes I empty that folder from time to time, especially when it gets very large.....