Archive for 'Patching'
Juniper Networks Flaw
Late last week a story came out about Juniper Networks routers being susceptible to a remote reboot. Versions of JUNOS and JUNOSe prior to 10.X can be crashed by sending a single packet to an open port on the router. The reboot occurs when a packet with the TCP Header Options field contains malformed data. [...]
Author: Charles Perine
Posted: January 14th, 2010 under Patching.
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Tiered Patching Infrastructure
There’s a great write-up on building and maintaining a Windows tiered patching infrastructure over at Ars Technica today. It sets up like this:
Windows updates have historically been a constant annoyance for IT staff. Manual updates were a huge pain, and, while the advent of the Automatic Update feature improved the situation, it brought with it [...]
Author: Jason Holcomb
Posted: December 9th, 2009 under Microsoft, Patching.
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