Microsoft Fixes a Glitch in Security Patch

On Thursday, Microsoft fixed a glitch that was located in a security patch created to address flaw that was earlier attacked by worms. Once that patch is applied to the system, programs that demand abundant amount of memory, such as one gigabyte or more may be unsuccessful to start.

The security update known as 921883 (MS06-040) was only causing problems to computers running Microsoft Windows Server 2003 based-x64, along with Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition and Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with SP1 (Service Pack 1). The issue only affects 32-bit programs such as Microsoft Business Solutions - Navision 3.7.

Dozen of security patches along with MS06-040 was released by Microsoft earlier this month. In fact, the faulty patch was labeled “critical” and urged users to apply it as soon as possible to be safe from hackers exploiting glitch that could allow a remote code execution. Similar security patch (MS06-042) was released and the MS06-042 caused Microsoft Internet Explorer to crash when viewing certain web sites. MS06-042 will be re-released on August 22.