Patch Tuesday Signals the end of Support for Windows Server 2003
Posted by: Timothy Weaver on 07/17/2015 09:26 AM
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Microsoft has released 14 bulletins as part of its Patch Tuesday update. Four are considered critical and ten ranked as important. The patch signals the end of support for Windows Server 2003.
One of the critical bulletins was a cumulative update for IE, MS15-065, which addressed CVE-2015-2425 uncovered in the recent Hacking Team leak.
Another patch considered important was a patch that would allow elevation of privilege also exposed in the Hacking Team 400 GB data dump.
Final fixes for Windows Server 2003 were included in the July Patch Tuesday release.
Wolfgang Kandek, CTO of Qualys, wrote: “July is the last month of patches for Windows Server 2003. Nine of the 14 bulletins affected Windows Server 2003. That is a clear indication that attackers will continue to find issues in Windows 2003 at roughly that rate…There are only two things to do to avoid that threat, migrate away from Server 2003 or pay Microsoft for the necessary patches through a special support contract."
Source: SCMagazine
One of the critical bulletins was a cumulative update for IE, MS15-065, which addressed CVE-2015-2425 uncovered in the recent Hacking Team leak. Another patch considered important was a patch that would allow elevation of privilege also exposed in the Hacking Team 400 GB data dump.
Final fixes for Windows Server 2003 were included in the July Patch Tuesday release.
Wolfgang Kandek, CTO of Qualys, wrote: “July is the last month of patches for Windows Server 2003. Nine of the 14 bulletins affected Windows Server 2003. That is a clear indication that attackers will continue to find issues in Windows 2003 at roughly that rate…There are only two things to do to avoid that threat, migrate away from Server 2003 or pay Microsoft for the necessary patches through a special support contract."
Source: SCMagazine
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