I received an alert from Microsoft last night that a new security patch has been made available. It is not often that patches are delivered out of band of the normal process. The patch revolves around a vulnerability in many Microsoft Operating Systems. The full list and deeper details can be found here. What happens is that with a carefully crafted RPC instruction, executables can be run on the affected server or workstation.
I have already applied the patch in house and all looked good. I just finished customer wide deployment and feel much better now that the word is out on the vulnerability. If you support a network you should get this patch out right away. It is already available for all needed system on Windows and Microsoft Update.
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