Spacen
Fri Jun 30 07:27:50 CDT 2006
Roger Abell [MVP] wrote:
> I know of no location with that information, perhaps mostly as it is
> not as simple as you have outlined. For example, at times, more
> ofter in prior years, the patches of some bulletin would supercede
> those of another for only some of the affected systems or versions.
> For example, IE rollups that would outdate prior for IE 5.5 or 6
> versions but not for IE 5 versions. Taking that into account, you
> are asking how many bulletins have associated patches that have
> not been replaced either by later patches, by rollup availability, or
> by inclusion in a service pack. It would be interesting to know.
>
> <jmspashett@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1151608672.973412.77170@75g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> > By that I mean to say that one Microsoft bulletin ( eg. MS99-025 ) can
> > supersede another ( MS98-004 ) ( ref:
> >
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms99-025.mspx )
> >
> > How can one find out?
> >
> > I did look at the mssecure.xml that MBSA 1.2 uses and found that there
> > are (Currently) 342 'SupercededBy' tags. Is this any indicator of the
> > number i.e. 493 (total bulletins) - 342 (superseded) giving 151?
> >
Ah yes. It seems looking at mssecure.xml that what you say is right. I
could go though the bulletins and xref with the SupercededBy to find
this out by the look of it. So the answer is at least 151. I'll write
some xslt to do when I have a bit of time.