MBSA 2.0 detection is based directly on Microsoft Update, so all inquiries
regarding MBSA 2.0 patch detection for this month's release should by sent
to the public microsoft.public.softwareupdatesvcs newsgroup. This
announcement is specific to MBSA 1.2.1 and the underlying MSSecure.XML file
that services the MBSA 1.2.1 tool.
MSSECURE.XML Data Version 2005.11.08.0 (for use by MBSA 1.2 and SMS SUS
Feature Pack) was last modified today, November 8, 2005, and is now
available for all supported languages (English, French, German and
Japanese). Today's
release contains 1 new bulletin. This new bulletin is fully supported
by MBSA 1.2 for detection.
New November Bulletins
1) MS05-053 (GDI) - 896424. This patch replaces MS03-035 and MS05-002
for Windows XP SP1 only (no other patches for other affected platforms are
superseded by this patch. See the MSRC MS05-053 bulletin for details).
This release also includes fixes for 2 minor issues including:
o MS05-018 when scanning a French machine incorrectly reports an invalid
checksum warning for NTOSKRNL.EXE when scanning a multi-processor or HT
Windows XP SP2 machine
o MS05-051 when scanning the ENU, DEU, FRN or JPN locales incorrectly
reports an invalid checksum for OLECLI32.DLL on Windows 2000 SP4 machines.
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Doug Neal [MSFT]
dugn@online.microsoft.com
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