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| posted by Michael Oliver on Feb. 10, 2015, 4:15 p.m. (1 day ago) | ||||||
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| Thread Tags: discuss-at-studiosysadmins | ||||||
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Time to roll out those patches to your corporate laptops...unless you are running Windows Server 2003...then you get to upgrade to 2012 :) Windows Server 2003 is listed as an affected product; why is Microsoft not issuing an update for it? The architecture to properly support the fix provided in the update does not exist on Windows Server 2003 systems, making it infeasible to build the fix for Windows Server 2003. To do so would require re-architecting a very significant amount of the Windows Server 2003 operating system, not just the affected component. The product of such a re-architecture effort would be sufficiently incompatible with Windows Server 2003 that there would be no assurance that applications designed to run on Windows Server 2003 would continue to operate on the updated system. This vulnerability requires that a user connect their computer to an untrusted network such as a Wi-Fi hotspot in a coffee shop; therefore, workstations that are connected to an untrusted network are most at risk from this vulnerability. |