{"id":72824,"date":"2010-07-22T07:13:15","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T07:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=72824"},"modified":"2010-07-22T07:13:15","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T07:13:15","slug":"workaround-from-microsoft-to-fix-the-issue-related-to-cve-2010-2568","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/workaround-from-microsoft-to-fix-the-issue-related-to-cve-2010-2568\/","title":{"rendered":"Workaround from Microsoft to fix the issue related to CVE-2010-2568"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is working hard to fix the issue related to CVE-2010-2568 and to release the security updates as early as possible to patch vulnerable systems. Meanwhile, Microsoft has released a <a title=\"Microsoft security advisory (2286198)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/security\/advisory\/2286198.mspx\">Microsoft security advisory (2286198)<\/a> which lists the set of workarounds. Workarounds refers to &#8220;a setting&#8221; or &#8220;configuration change&#8221; that does not correct the underlying issue but would help block known attack using the vulnerability.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has tested the workarounds and states in the discussion whether a workaround has some side effects.<br \/>\n\u2022 Disable the displaying of icons for shortcuts<br \/>\n\u2022 Disable the WebClient service<br \/>\n\u2022 Block the download of LNK and PIF files from the Internet<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Microsoft Support has a <a title=\"Knowledge Base\" href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/2286198\">Knowledge Base Article<\/a> which includes their one click &#8220;Fix it&#8221; buttons to implement the workarounds which enable\/disables .LNK and .PIF file functionality automatically.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Knowledge Base\" href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/2286198\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.quickheal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/archive\/siteimg\/FixIt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"314\" height=\"137\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Knowledge base also has a detailed interactive method to implement the workaround yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is working hard to fix the issue related to CVE-2010-2568 and to release the security updates as early as possible to patch vulnerable systems. Meanwhile, Microsoft has released a Microsoft security advisory (2286198) which lists the set of workarounds. Workarounds refers to &#8220;a setting&#8221; or &#8220;configuration change&#8221; that does not correct the underlying issue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}