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Microsoft to Issue Emergency Patch For File-Sharing Hole

10/24/2008

An nameless reader writes "Microsoft said late Wednesday that it plans to release a critical armament update today to plug a safeguard hole present in all supported versions of Windows. The company hasn't released any details about the patch yet, which is scheduled

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document.write(" to be pushed out at 1 p.m. PT. Normally, Redmond issues sanctuary updates on Patch Tuesday, the second Tuesday of each month. The patronage Post's sanctuary Fix blog notes that each of the three times in the past that Microsoft has departed from its patch cycle, it was to fix some really nasty vulnerability that criminals already were exploiting to break into Windows PCs." Reader filenavigator points out an article which describes the hole as an SMB vulnerability, and says it "allows anyone to access a Windows machine remotely without any user name or password. Any machine that exposes Windows file sharing is vulnerable." Update: 10/23 17:42 GMT by T : Reader AngryDad adds a link to Microsoft's more all-out memo.