Re: [foxboro] XP Security Patches, whither art thou?

  • From: Ed.Zychowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:34:37 -0600

You can mark me down for very concerned!
I spoke with Foxboro TAC and I'm told that Microsoft will not allow 
Foxboro to create the ISO CDs any longer. Foxboro will only be allowed to 
point us to the Microsoft update website. (not even allowed to link to the 
specific patch). Still, that shouldn't relieve them of the responsibility 
to test patches. IMHO.




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Does anyone else share my concern that the security patch process has
grounded to a halt since the middle of last year?

A rough count shows the following outstanding patches for the Win XP,
Service Pack 2 platform:

Aug 2007, 5 critical patches
Oct 2007, 2 critical, 1 important
Nov 2007, 1 critical
Dec 2007, 6 critical, 3 important

The reversed timeline as shown on the IPS web site:

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9 Jan 2008: MS08-001 and MS08-002 entered Evalutation Testing=20

19 Dec 2007: MS07-064, MS07-065, MS07-67, MS07-068 and MS07-069 Passed
Smoke Testing. =20
NEW IMAGE NOT MADE AVAILABLE=20

12 Dec 2007: MS07-064, MS07-065, MS07-67, MS07-068 and MS07-069 entered
Evalutation Testing=20

20 Nov 2007: MS07-061 Passed Smoke Testing. =20
NEW IMAGE NOT MADE AVAILABLE=20

14 Nov 2007: MS07-061 entered Evalutation Testing=20

15 Oct 2007: MS07-056, MS07-57, MS07-058, kb933360 and kb932590 Passed
Smoke Testing. =20
NEW IMAGE NOT MADE AVAILABLE=20

10 Oct 2007: MS07-056, MS07-57, MS07-058, kb933360 and kb932590 entered
Evalutation Testing=20

14 Sep 2007: There were no patches release by Microsoft for this
platform for the month of Sep 2007=20

16 Aug 2007: MS07-042, MS07-43, MS07-045, MS07-046 and MS07-050 Passed
Smoke Testing. =20
NEW IMAGE NOT MADE AVAILABLE.=20

12-Aug 2007: MS07-042, MS07-43, MS07-045, MS07-046 and MS07-050 entered
Evalutation Testing
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The last time patches were released was in June 2007.

Can anybody from Invensys/Foxboro explain the reasoning behind "NEW
IMAGE NOT MADE AVAILABLE"?

Duc
 
 
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