No SharePoint fix any time soon
By Davey Winder in Editorial
Posted in SharePoint, Microsoft on
You would think that a flaw in something like the SharePoint software that is important enough to be rated, well, important, by Microsoft would be high on the list of priorities to fix. You would have thought that this privilege flaw, that might give a would be attacker access to resources they should not be able to see would be rolled out in the September updates. You could expect users of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on Windows Server 2003 and Office SharePoint server 2007 to be a little miffed if Microsoft was to decline to roll out said fix in September, when it had been slated for release then. And I will put money on said users being not at all happy at Microsoft for declining to comment if the patch will be available in October, or November, or ever for that matter.
Sure, we all know that Microsoft has something of a problem in getting fixes out in a timely manner, usually blaming quality control issues. Sure , we all know that there are millions of lines of code to work through, and that any fix has to be tested to ensure it maintains compatibility with other applications.
But we also all know that another month delayed means there is another month for the bad guys to exploit the vulnerability and make life difficult for all of us. It is not as if this is a newly discovered flaw after all, it was disclosed to the public way back in May.
Perhaps we can just be grateful that, as far as the security vendors I have spoken to at least, there have been no known exploits as a result. Known is the key word there, as the whole security exploit sector is one lived in dark corners and spoken about in whispers.
Roll on Tuesday October 9th, and hopefully Microsoft will roll out the SharePoint patch at long last.
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