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Microsoft KB# to Advisory name mapping

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Desmond Irvine)
Fri Mar 23 08:10:46 2001

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Date:         Thu, 22 Mar 2001 14:17:38 -0500
Reply-To: Desmond Irvine <desmond.irvine@SHERIDANC.ON.CA>
From: Desmond Irvine <desmond.irvine@SHERIDANC.ON.CA>
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM

Does anyone know where I could find a table that would map the Microsoft
KB#'s that the hotfixes are associated with to the Advisory name
(MS##-###)?  I know XATO has a page something like what I want, but it
doesn't seem to be complete or up to date:

   http://www.xato.net/advisories/beta/win2k.htm

When looking at an NT server to determine what hotfixes have been
applied you can run "hotfix -l" to get a dialog box with the KB#'s in it
(Q147222, Q238606, etc.)  You can also scan the registry in
\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Hotfix
to get a similar listing some of which will have comments and fix
description keys that may or may not be useful in identifying the
advisories they are associated with.  What I ideally want to get is
something like:

MS00-086 - web server file request parsing vulnerabilty - Q277873
...

On a machine with unknown patches applied it can be a real pain to go
from the KB#'s to the MS Advisories.

Thanks, Desmond.

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