Microsoft Patch Tuesday, a day that everyone holds their breath in wonder.  Which bugs will be fixed today?  How will this affect out IT infrastructure?

Well, this one has a doozy!

A flaw in Server Message Block (SMB) has been fixed.  Yay!  But how long has this flaw really been known?  Well, Metasploit chalks it up to “Sir Dystic” at a hacking conference in 2001.  While elsewhere it is suggested that the original find is credited to “dildog” (AKA Christian Rioux of Veracode) even further back in 2000 at Defcon.

Either way, that’s an awfully long time to just sit on a critical security flaw.  Oh, sorry, Microsoft itself only labels the flaw as “important”.

I guess we should just be glad that it’s finally fixed.