[BESAdmin-Announcements] Content Modification Announcement - Enterprise Security

[Annoucements for BES Administrators]

Several sets of Fixlet messages have been modified in the "Enterprise
Security" Fixlet site.

 

1. MS06-061 modification.

 

The original release of the Fixlet messages may cause temporary progress
windows or a reboot request dialog box to be displayed on client
machines running XML Core Services 4.0 or XML Core Services 6.0. The
command line switches for two MS06-061 updates has been modified to make
the patch deployment completely silent.

 

ID 606111 "MS06-061: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft XML Core Services
Could Allow Remote Code Execution - XML Core Services 4.0"

ID 606112 "MS06-061: CORRUPT PATCH - XML Core Services 4.0"

ID 606113 "MS06-061: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft XML Core Services
Could Allow Remote Code Execution - XML Core Services 6.0"

ID 606115 "MS06-061: CORRUPT PATCH - XML Core Services 6.0"

 

2. MS06-057 modification.

 

The relevance for MS06-057 has been modified to identify all computers
that need the update. The original release did not target all affected
versions of "comctl32.dll". The file check relevance has been modified
to address this issue.

 

ID 605701 "MS06-057: Vulnerability in Windows Explorer Could Allow
Remote Execution - Windows 2000 SP4"

ID 605708 "MS06-057: CORRUPT PATCH - Windows 2000 SP4"

ID 605703 "MS06-057: Vulnerability in Windows Explorer Could Allow
Remote Execution - Windows Server 2003"

ID 605704 "MS06-057: CORRUPT PATCH - Windows Server 2003"

ID 605705 "MS06-057: Vulnerability in Windows Explorer Could Allow
Remote Execution - Windows XP SP1/SP2"

ID 605706 "MS06-057: CORRUPT PATCH - Windows XP SP1/SP2"

ID 605707 "MS06-057: Vulnerability in Windows Explorer Could Allow
Remote Execution - Windows XP/2003 (x64)"

ID 605710 "MS06-057: CORRUPT PATCH - Windows XP/2003 (x64)"

ID 605709 "MS06-057: Vulnerability in Windows Explorer Could Allow
Remote Execution - Windows XP/2003 (x64) - BES < 6.0"

 

3. Superseded content.

 

Several sets of Fixlet messages have been superseded by the new October
security updates. Affected Fixlet messages have been modified
accordingly:

 

Partially Superseded by MS06-057: 604505, 604506

Completely Superseded by MS06-058: 602801, 602802, 602804-602811

Completely Superseded by MS06-059: 603701-603712

Completely Superseded by MS06-060: 602701-602710, 602712

Completely Superseded by MS06-062: 604801-604808, 604811, 604812

Completely Superseded by MS06-063: 603501-603508

 

4. End of Support for Windows XP SP1.

 

Microsoft has announced that Windows XP Service Pack 1 is no longer
supported after October 10, 2006 and that they will no longer provide
security updates. The "Microsoft Unsupported" warning Fixlet message has
been updated to detect computers still running Windows XP SP1 or
earlier. 

 

ID 353 "Microsoft Unsupported: Windows XP SP1 and Earlier"

 

BES Administrators are encouraged to verify any open actions involving
these updates. Please contact BigFix Technical Support if you have any
questions regarding these modifications.

 

BigFix Product Team

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