DevOps Fail: "Windows Update Zero-Day Being Exploited to Undo Security Fixes"

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Andrew Tetzeli

Posted on September 11, 2024

DevOps Fail: "Windows Update Zero-Day Being Exploited to Undo Security Fixes"

In not-good news for DevOps, Microsoft released vulnerable software as part of its Updates subsystem. The flaw allowed the rolling back of patches to -- you guessed it -- other security flaws. Security Week

We're waiting for it to reach the update-to-patch-flawed-update-to-fix-flawed-update-in-the-prior-update stage.

Stay tuned. We'll keep you posted.

From the Microsoft bulletin:

“Microsoft is aware of a vulnerability in Servicing Stack that has rolled back the fixes for some vulnerabilities affecting Optional Components on Windows 10, version 1507 (initial version released July 2015)."

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andrewtetzeli
Andrew Tetzeli

Posted on September 11, 2024

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