It's 2020 and a rogue ICMPv6 network packet can pwn your Microsoft Windows machine (Patch Tuesday alert)

The Register ^ | Oct 13, 2020 | Thomas Claburn

[dayglored]

It's that time again...

[dayglored]

Windows 10 Update ** Patch Tuesday **... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

[Starcitizen]

Microsoft has gone to shit when it decided Americans were worthless scum and brought in Indian and Communist Chinese H1Bs scabs to replace the fired Americans.

[Larry Lucido]

“network packet can pwn”

Did the headline writer misspell “pawn”?

[dynachrome]

“misspell “pawn”?”

Nah. “pwn” is gamer thing, I think. ‘You’ve been owned’

[thinden]

Wish I could understand what you’re saying.

I got hit with something on a MS update that has Locked my windows up

Where’s the fix

[Ignatz]

Would this only affect dual-homed servers that are configured as IPv6 routers?

[dayglored]

"Pwn" is a common (and generally intentional) misspelling of "own", meaning to take over, conquer, infiltrate, another person's or company's computer or network.

[dayglored]

> Would this only affect dual-homed servers that are configured as IPv6 routers?

The way I read it, if affects all Windows clients (Windows10) and servers (Windows Server 20xx). They all come up with IPv6 enabled and preferred. You have to go out of your way to disable IPv6.

[dynachrome]

Works for me.

[Larry Lucido]

Ah, so it’s the “boom” or “bombshell” equivalent of blogger headlines written by folks with five-year-old mentalities.

[mrsmith]

“The specific flaw exists within the parsing of HTML content in an email,”

So I’m not affected if html is turned off in my webmail ? Even if using admin level?

I like to delay updates a week in case problems show up in updates.

[dynachrome]

See #8

[dynachrome]

I was off a bit. Though I always heard it game related when you got stomped in whatever online game you were playing.

[dayglored]

> I got hit with something on a MS update that has Locked my windows up Where’s the fix

That depends on what the problem is caused by, which will be hard to diagnose if it won't run.

So an appropriate question in return is: Where's your backup?

I don't mean that to sound snarky, just trying to be helpful. If you can get it running, try to roll back to a "Restore Point". If you can't get it running, restore the machine from a backup.

Personally, I do a full backup of my Windows machines just prior to applying Windows Updates. That way if I have to restore, I haven't lost much work.

[dayglored]

> I was off a bit. Though I always heard it game related when you got stomped in whatever online game you were playing.

Actually, you were right, it's just that the gaming usage is a smaller part of the larger network context.

[Dead Corpse]

1709? Gotta patch ‘em more than once every couple of years...

[kiryandil]

"Patch Tuesday"

groan...

[kiryandil]

Though I always heard it game related when you got stomped in whatever online game you were playing.

Yes. The winner got so excited trying to ram the bayonet of defeat down the enemy's throat that he or she hit the "p" instead of the "o".

And thus history was made...

[usconservative]

I’m so glad I run Ubuntu ... Microsoft OS’ just aren’t worth the risk of running.