Updated: July 11, 2020 (August 15, 2005)
Analyst ReportAugust 2005 Security Updates
August 2005’s “Patch Tuesday” included one important and three critical patches for vulnerabilities in Windows. In addition, Microsoft released a Knowledge Base (KB) article documenting problems with the recently released Update Rollup for Windows Server 2003 SP4 that will require Microsoft to reissue the rollup. There have been reports of new attack vectors in Windows Vista, the next version of the Windows client, which is currently in beta.
August Patches
Three critical patches released in Aug. 2005 fix vulnerabilities in Windows, including the following:
A cumulative patch for problems related to JPEG rendering, Web folder behavior, and COM object instantiation with Internet Explorer (IE)-this update is cumulative because the multiple vulnerabilities require modifications to related files
A patch for an unchecked buffer in the Plug-and-Play service (this service allows Windows to detect new hardware installed on a computer)
A patch for an unchecked buffer in the print spooler (this service loads when the OS starts and manages the printing process).
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