Networking Snafu Gums Up Microsoft Security Patches
Networking problems today kept Microsoft from distributing its latest security patches to users of its automatic update services.
The updates, released at about 11 a.m. Pacific time, fix a whopping 26 vulnerabilities in Windows, Office, and the .Net framework. Many of the flaws involved are considered critical, but the fixes were still unavailable 4 hours later via many of Microsoft's most popular update services. Late in the day, the problem was corrected.
The trouble arose because of "some network issues on the Microsoft Update platform," according to Microsoft's Craig Gehere, who wrote about the issue in a blog posting. The security updates were not available to users of Microsoft Update, Automatic Updates, Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), and Windows Update, version 6, Gehere said. Later in the day, Gehere updated his blog to say that the problem had been fixed.
