Microsoft Re-patches Third Aug. Patch

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September 27, 2006 (2:49 PM EDT)

By Gregg Keizer , TechWeb Technology News

The same day that Microsoft Corp. went out-of-cycle to issue a fix for a critical flaw in Internet Explorer, it also re-released a security update that had corrupted data on some users' PCs. It was the third patch from August's batch that has had to be re-issued.

Versi0n 2.0 of MS06-049, "Vulnerability in Windows Kernel Could Result in Elevation of Privilege," was posted Tuesday in response to warnings earlier this month from Microsoft that the Aug. 8 edition could ruin files on NTFS formatted drives when the PC used Windows' own compression schemes.

Then, Microsoft said while it had created a hotfix, customers had to contact the support desk to obtain a copy. The revised MS06-049 released Tuesday rolled that hotfix into the older update.

Microsoft has recently had to regularly re-issue patches, occasionally multiple times, to fix newly introduced bugs or overlooked flaws. Two weeks ago, it released an August update for Internet Explorer, MS06-042, for the third time. The same day, the Redmond, Wash.-based developer also re-released MS06-040, another August update.