Full Disclosure: FYI: MS06-049 patch (920958) corrupts NTFS compression files

From: KOJIMA Hajime <kjm_at_rins.ryukoku.ac.jp>
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:19:03 +0900

just FYI...

MS06-049 patch (920958) corrupts NTFS compression files.

Affected sytem
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Windows 2000 SP4 + MS06-049 patch (920958)

Discussion
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* Discussion in english:
  http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/dgbrowser/en-us/default.mspx?&query=920958&lang=en&cr=US&guid=&sloc=en-us&dg=microsoft.public.win2000.file_system&p=1&tid=d826afe9-2ab1-4b2f-ae11-cc27702f574a
* Discussion in japanese:
  http://slashdot.jp/~oops/journal/
  http://pc8.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/win/1151414872/47-
  http://slashdot.jp/security/article.pl?sid=06/09/10/068243

How to demonstrate
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  1. Creat folder on NTFS partition.
  2. Enable NTFS compression to that folder.
  3. Insert Windows 2000 Installation disk to your CD-ROM drive.
  4. Copy all files from Windows 2000 Installation disk to that
     folder.
  5. Compare.

How to prevent
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Uninstall MS06-049 patch (920958).

How to find corrupted files
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Try findcorr tool (by 147-win/1151414872):
http://211.2.20.24/pub/findcorr.lzh

C:\> findcorr.exe
Usage: findcorr [-a] [-d] [-e] path

  Options:
           -a Scan all files including uncompressed files.
           -d Report compression directories.
           -e Exact mode.

How to fix corrupted files
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Restore them from backups.

Patch and NTFS compression
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  If you install patch, patch installer create backup folder for
  uninstall, such as C:\WINNT\$NtUninstallKB920958$, and copy old
  files to it.

This folder is NTFS compression enabled automatically. You
cannot turn off this feature.

Official information from Microsoft
-----------------------------------

Not yet, but they are working to fix problem.

- kjm

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Received on Sep 10 2006