{"id":9007,"date":"2017-08-30T12:30:01","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T20:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/08\/30\/news-2780\/"},"modified":"2017-08-30T12:30:01","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T20:30:01","slug":"news-2780","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/08\/30\/news-2780\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft patch alert: Outstanding problems with recent updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 12:36:00 -0700<\/strong><\/p>\n

August has seen a flurry of buggy patches:<\/p>\n

Win10 1607<\/strong> \u2013 KB 4033637<\/a>, which arrived last Friday via Auto Update, is still undocumented. A Reddit thread<\/a> credits Microsoft as saying it\u2019s a July security patch for Flash. Abbodi86 on AskWoody<\/a> has a different view: it\u2019s an update to the Compatibility Appraiser, which is the software that scans a PC to see whether it\u2019s ready to move to the next version. G\u00fcnter Born concurs with Abbodi86<\/a>. (I wonder if it\u2019s a precursor to the Fall Creators Update.) There\u2019s no explanation about why Microsoft refuses to document it, or talk about it.<\/p>\n

Win10 1507 and 1511<\/strong> \u2013 KB 4033631, similarly undocumented and similarly pushed thru Auto Update, is also likely an update to the Compatibility Appraiser.<\/p>\n

Win10 1607<\/strong> \u2013 KB 4039396<\/a>, seems to be all right, although it\u2019s too early to say for sure since it was just released Aug. 29. It\u2019s a manually-applied cumulative update for 1607, incorporating August\u2019s KB 4038220, KB 4034658 (still offered through Auto Update, wipes out Update History, redlines servers) \u00a0and KB 4034661.<\/p>\n

Win7\u00a0<\/strong>– KB 4034664, KB 4034679, KB 4034670 all have an\u00a0acknowledged problem<\/a>\u00a0with garbling data on a second screen on multi-screen systems. Microsoft issued a patch for the screen problem,\u00a0KB 4039884<\/a>, but then pulled the patch and re-released it<\/a>, without any explanation or warning.\u00a0The original Monthly Rollup, KB 4034664, has two additional acknowledged problems<\/a>, an old problem with LDAP referral chasing and a crash in WordPad. KB 4034664 is still being pushed via Automatic Update.<\/p>\n

Server 2016<\/strong> \u2013 KB 4039396, Server 2012 R2<\/strong> \u2013 KB 4039871, Server 2012<\/strong> \u2013 KB 4039873, WSUS 3.0 SP2<\/strong> \u2013 KB 4039929 \u2013 all are supposed to fix the server redlining problem<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Word 2016, Outlook 2016<\/strong> \u2013 The Word 2016 patch KB 3213656<\/a> causes merged cells to appear garbled and unresponsive. The bug has not been acknowledged by Microsoft, and the patch is still available<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Office 2016<\/strong> \u2014 The non-security patch KB 4011051 had a bug that left hyperlinks in Excel 2016 non-functional. It\u2019s fixed by KB 4011093<\/a> (manual download only)<\/p>\n

Additional Office problems<\/strong> \u2013 These are detailed on the Fixes or workarounds page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Surface Pro 4<\/strong> \u2014 The \u201cSurface – System – 7\/21\/2017 12:00:00 AM – 1.0.65.1,\u201d which rolled out via Auto Update<\/a> and broke Windows Hello, was replaced by a newer driver<\/a>, 1.0.75.1.<\/p>\n

Adobe Acrobat and Reader<\/strong> \u2014 The buggy security patch from Aug. 8 has been replaced by a new one, APSB17-24<\/a>, dated Aug. 29.<\/p>\n

Recommendation<\/strong>: Hold off on applying August Windows and Office patches.<\/p>\n

Follow the ongoing <\/em>Patch Alert topic on the AskWoody Lounge<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/category\/security\/index.rss<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 12:36:00 -0700<\/strong><\/p>\n

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August has seen a flurry of buggy patches:<\/p>\n

Win10 1607<\/strong> \u2013 KB 4033637<\/a>, which arrived last Friday via Auto Update, is still undocumented. A Reddit thread<\/a> credits Microsoft as saying it\u2019s a July security patch for Flash. Abbodi86 on AskWoody<\/a> has a different view: it\u2019s an update to the Compatibility Appraiser, which is the software that scans a PC to see whether it\u2019s ready to move to the next version. G\u00fcnter Born concurs with Abbodi86<\/a>. (I wonder if it\u2019s a precursor to the Fall Creators Update.) There\u2019s no explanation about why Microsoft refuses to document it, or talk about it.<\/p>\n

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