Friday night quick patching recap for business patchers:

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Friday night quick patching recap for business patchers: Windows Server 2016 SSU – has been recalled and been replaced with KB5001078.  This fixes the
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Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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Not to deny those issues, but giving the there are some sensible things patched this month (like the TCP/IP RCE one) I rather apply the updates sooner this month. The nearly 1-month wait is out of the table for me, it would be a week at most. Also, I specially recommend people with Win7 ESU to do it just now.

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Win7 ESU patched with SMQR KB4601347 has been running fine since 9th Feb here. No error logs whatsoever in Event Viewer, SFC no violations, no telemetry re-introduction, local printer works fine if that is any help.
I’d agree on the TCP/IP point of view, which is why I took the plunge immediately after reading the patch documentation and suffer any consequences later.
More info on Born City
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The two critical RCE vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-24074, CVE-2021-24094) are classified as complex and difficult to exploit. Microsoft believes that attackers could rather exploit the DoS vulnerability (CVE-2021-24086), which is rated as important, to create DoS exploits. Attackers could then trigger BlueScreens on the Windows system via network packets.

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Threat Brief: Windows IPv4 and IPv6 Stack Vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-24074, CVE-2021-24086 and CVE-2021-24094) (paloaltonetworks.com)  got a firewall between you and your network?  Your firewall probably already is blocking these types of connections.

Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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Alex5723

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Even if it does, it is not always recommended to put all your faith on it, more when you read in PAN-OS case specifically they are on the news rather frequently with critical or high vulnerabilities.

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Susan Bradley wrote:

got a firewall between you and your network? Your firewall probably already is blocking these types of connections..

Is there a Windows OS system without a firewall between the PC and a router/network ?

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What are you asking / suggesting?
Windows comes standard with a firewall, although it probably won’t stop these attacks from an internal source.

cheers, Paul

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This was a response for Susan’s : “got a firewall between you and your network?”

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“Windows server 2003 will probably fail.”

Regarding the above statement, our 2016 DCs are patched up to January 2021,  we have a Win2003 R2 member server joined to the domain.  I have not seen a single error for IDs 5827, 5828, 5829  as of today and going back to last Sept.

Does this mean our 2003 server will not be impacted by the DC enforcement?

 

 

 

 

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I don’t have one so I can’t confirm.  Others have told me the 2003 should fail – but I have a Windows 7 without an ESU and like you said, not a single hiccup in the event logs.

Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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