"Out-of-band" fix rolled out for the leaked Eternal Darkness bug

"Out-of-band" fix rolled out for the leaked Eternal Darkness bug

Hello folks,

 

Earlier in March 2020 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has announced a security advisory on an unpatched vulnerability in the SMBv3 protocol (CVE-2020-0796) with a temporary workaround in place. Now a fix is available for this vulnerability as KB4551762, for Windows 10, versions 1903 and 1909, and Windows Server 2019, versions 1903 and 1909.

Microsoft strongly recommends that you install the updates for this vulnerability. In case you have applied the workaround published earlier and wish to disable it, you can refer to our forum post where we discussed more details on this vulnerability and workaround disabling procedures.

Even if you plan to leave the workaround in place, kindly deploy these patches mentioned below to fix the vulnerability in your affected endpoints.

 

PATCHID

BULLETINID

PATCHNAME

28617

MS20-MAR14

Windows10.0-kb4551762-x64-1903-2019.msu

28616

MS20-MAR14

Windows10.0-kb4551762-x64-1903.msu

28612

MS20-MAR14

Windows10.0-kb4551762-x64-1909-2019.msu

28613

MS20-MAR14

Windows10.0-kb4551762-x64-1909.msu

28614

MS20-MAR14

Windows10.0-kb4551762-x86-1903.msu

28615

MS20-MAR14

Windows10.0-kb4551762-x86-1909.msu

 

Happy patching!

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