Re: Microsoft Pulls Four Planned Patches

[Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi>]

Yeah, it was covered here:
http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=2003

Probably the QA issues are the most important reason.

Related:
Secunia's Vulnerability Report: Microsoft Office 2003 Professional Edition:
http://secunia.com/product/2276/?task=advisories

"Unpatched: 26% (7 of 27 Secunia advisories)" since July 2004

- Juha-Matti


Fergie <fergdawg () netzero net> wrote: 
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> Not sure anyone caught this yesterday but... what's up with this?
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> QA issue?
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> Via C|Net News.
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> [snip]
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> Microsoft has pulled four bulletins from its announced list of Patch
> Tuesday fixes, but did not specify why it was backpedaling on the security
> releases.
>
> It now plans to issue four security bulletins on Tuesday, rather than the
> eight originally announced, the software giant said Friday in an updated
> notice on its Web site.
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> [snip]
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> More:
> http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-6147705.html
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> - - ferg
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