security patch impact on prioritized wav files

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.security (More info?)

Is there anything in your Application or System Log to provide information
on the problem?


"jw" <jw@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C4113893-75D9-4B1F-8C59-8EB4A7E0D089@microsoft.com...
> 1. Application configuration/Scenario: remote server is VMS that issues
> alarms with their tones when different level of exceptions happen. Local
> machine is a client on a Windows 2000 machine, which receives the
> alarm/tone
> information. On the client site there is a priority file including these
> tones' wav files and orders the tone based on the alarm priority. When
> both a
> lower priority tone and a higher priority tone are triggered, the higher
> priority tone overwrite the lower one.
> 2. Problem: before install MS security patch related to
> MS05-012(Vulnerability in OLE and COM), the priority file controls which
> tone
> to issue. After install the MS security patch, the priority file does not
> work.
> 3. Question: what MS05-012 does for OLE and COM, and what the impact on
> the
> system to recognize the wav file? (Since someone remove the ".wav" changed
> the line "tone1.wav" to "tone1" in the priority file, the problem seems
> got
> the fixed. We need to know why this fixes the problem.