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Patch Impact on Applications 11 September 2008 14:14
Hi, We have run the patches through our Application Compatibility
Lab to assess the impact these patches will have on applications. We
found that this months patches were relatively light.
The updates MS08-055 and MS08-053 relate to Windows Media player
which has a minimal impact on the Operating system and few
applications have a direct dependency on Windows Media player.
More importantly, MS08-052 includes an update to a core element of
the operating system (GDIPLUS.DLL). This file is part of the graphics
library for Window XP. Several applications we ran through AOK can
load a version of this file from their source media/download process
when they are installed and so there is a danger that if this happens
the installation will result in an out of date version of this file
being loaded and overwriting the version in the patch update this
month.
Please see our full report by following the below link:
http://www.changebase.com/news_release_2008_09_10.html
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