Security Update
The table below shows security patches issued between Mar. 16, 2000, and Apr. 7, 2000. Bulletins that describe these patches are at www.microsoft.com/technet/security/current.asp.
| Threat | Systems Affected | Cause | Bulletin |
| An attacker can lock users out of copy-protected content hosted on Windows Media Server.
|
Windows Media Rights Manager version 1.0
(ships with Windows Media Technologies 4.1 and 4.0) |
Certain types of specially malformed license requests can corrupt an internal table in the License Manager so that it refuses to accept all further requests for new licenses. This prevents users from decrypting protected media files (audio or video) distributed by the Windows Media Server. | ms00-016
(Mar. 17) |
| Illegal pathnames embedded on Web pages or received in e-mail can crash a Windows 9x system. | Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98 SE | The Windows 9x command parser does not check for multiple occurrences of device names (i.e., c:lpt1lpt1) |
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