bugtraq - Re: Another Low Blow From Microsoft: MBSA Failure!

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Message-ID: <402A5F22.2050907@KRvW.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 11:58:10 -0500
From: "Kenneth R. van Wyk" <Ken@...W.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com, bugtraq@...urityfocus.com,
   patchmanagement@...tserv.patchmanagement.org
Subject: Re: Another Low Blow From Microsoft: MBSA Failure!

Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:

>Remember - if the exploit works, you have a problem.  Failure of the
>exploit to work does NOT mean you don't have a problem - somebody with
>a different version that has a critical offset set to 4 more or less
>may make swiss cheese of your network.
>  
>
Yes, excellent point.  Phrased somewhat differently, software testing 
only detects the presence
of a problem, not the absence of one.  I believe that that subtle but 
oh-so-important point is
not understood far too often.

Cheers,

Ken van Wyk
-- 
KRvW Associates, LLC
CERT® Certified Computer Security Incident Handler
http://www.KRvW.com

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