[BESAdmin-Announcements] Content Modification Announcement - Patches for Windows (English) / Enterprise Security - MS08-076, Windows Vista Hotfixes

[Announcements for BES Administrators]

BigFix has modified content in the Patches for Windows (English) /
Enterprise Security site. Two sets of content have been modified:

1. Microsoft has made a major revision to Security Bulletin MS08-076.
The binaries have been rereleased to fix an installation issue. The
following new Fixlet messages that deploy the new binaries have been
released:

ID: 807645      MS08-076: Vulnerabilities in Windows Media Components
Could Allow Remote Code Execution - Windows Media Format Runtime
9.0/9.5/11 - Windows XP SP2 (v2, re-released 1/13/2009) 
ID: 807646      MS08-076: Vulnerabilities in Windows Media Components
Could Allow Remote Code Execution - Windows Media Format Runtime
9.0/9.5/11 - Windows XP SP2 (v2, re-released 1/13/2009) - CORRUPT PATCH 
ID: 807647      MS08-076: Vulnerabilities in Windows Media Components
Could Allow Remote Code Execution - Windows Media Format Runtime
9.0/9.5/11 - Windows XP SP3 (v2, re-released 1/13/2009) 
ID: 807648      MS08-076: Vulnerabilities in Windows Media Components
Could Allow Remote Code Execution - Windows Media Format Runtime
9.0/9.5/11 - Windows XP SP3 (v2, re-released 1/13/2009) - CORRUPT PATCH 

The following Fixlet messages for the old binaries have been superseded:

ID: 807614      MS08-076: Vulnerabilities in Windows Media Components
Could Allow Remote Code Execution - Windows Media Format Runtime
9.0/9.5/11 - Windows XP SP2 - CORRUPT PATCH (Superseded)
ID: 807613      MS08-076: Vulnerabilities in Windows Media Components
Could Allow Remote Code Execution - Windows Media Format Runtime
9.0/9.5/11 - Windows XP SP2 (Superseded)
ID: 807616      MS08-076: Vulnerabilities in Windows Media Components
Could Allow Remote Code Execution - Windows Media Format Runtime
9.0/9.5/11 - Windows XP SP3 - CORRUPT PATCH (Superseded)
ID: 807615      MS08-076: Vulnerabilities in Windows Media Components
Could Allow Remote Code Execution - Windows Media Format Runtime
9.0/9.5/11 - Windows XP SP3 (Superseded)


2. The following Fixlet messages have been modified to only apply to
Windows Vista Gold x64, as the hotfixes have been included in Service
Pack 1:

ID: 93259601    932596: Update to Improve Kernel Patch Protection -
Windows Vista (x64)
ID: 94341103    943411: Update to Improve Windows Sidebar Protection -
Windows Vista (x64)


BES administrators are encouraged to verify open actions and synchronize
baselines that contain the modified content.  Instructions for
synchronizing baselines can be found here:
http://support.bigfix.com/cgi-bin/kbdirect.pl?id=401.  Please contact
BigFix Technical Support if you have any questions regarding this
change.

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BigFix Application Engineering Team 

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