February's Patch Tuesday sees Microsoft offer just 63 fixes

Microsoft’s February patch collection is mercifully smaller than January’s mega-dump. But don't get too relaxed – some deserve close attention, and other vendors have stepped in with plenty more fixes. Of the 63 patches (including six released earlier in the month) Microsoft announced, two are already being exploited. Both …

[Yorick Hunt]

Their fixes are always small in number - the big question is, how many things did they break?

[david 12]

leak a user's NTLMv2

Although I haven't been able to find any information -- none at all --, it is likely that the 'file' is a shortcut, (.lnk), pointing to some offsite location, and that Windows is attempting to authenticate against that offsite location. Potentially there are other ways of doing the same thing (shell scraps, etc)., some of which might be non-obvious.

If anybody finds more discussion, I'm curious.

[DJV]

Outlook?

Apparently, according to several sources, KB5051974 also forces the new Outlook app on users. So, after the customary reboot, I went searching for Outlook in order to delete it but found it conspicuously absent!

Maybe it saw that I was using Thunderbird/Betterbird and decided I was already a "lost cause" and didn't bother to install it.

[kmorwath]

Re: Outlook?

I got it, even on a machine with TB installed. Not on domain-joined machines with Outlook installed.

[Hubert Cumberdale]

I have to say, after all the excesses of Christmas,

I was somewhat relieved by "January’s mega-dump".

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: I have to say, after all the excesses of Christmas,

An attempt at so-called humour, one supposes?

[Hubert Cumberdale]

Re: I have to say, after all the excesses of Christmas,

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

[Kev99]

And for how many years have mictosoft and mud-brick been pushing out code and they still CAN'T write safe code?

[Groo The Wanderer - A Canuck]

Aw. I feel so bad. I'm missing out on the monthly bug-fests... *LOL*

Yay Ubuntu!

[Acrimonius]

Do not touch Excel

Excel bugs - do not touch the code. The core has been working as it should for donkey's years. Touch at your peril