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Painful, at least!
I had increased the Recovery Partition by 250MB and it still won't install.
Painful, at least!
I had increased the Recovery Partition by 250MB and it still won't install.
The update deals with "a security vulnerability that could allow attackers to bypass BitLocker encryption by using Windows Recovery Environment"
I don't use Bitlocker and I am not screwing with my recovery enviornment.
Effin Microsoft ..... SMFH
Has anyone tried a recovery since following their directions? My experience in dealing with the recovery partition is , you mess with the bull, you get the horns.
There is a workaround to avoid the extension for people with more than 1 computer. You need just one (1) updated WinRE.wim and then you copy it to the other machines. Only the update needs the bigger partition. Not the WinRE.wim In update history it will be shown as successfully installed!
If I am reading this correctly, if you have TPM and it is enabled , you don't really need this update anyway .....
"If TPM+PIN BitLocker protectors are being used, can the vulnerability be exploited if the attacker does not know the TPM PIN?
No. To exploit the vulnerability the attacker needs to know the TPM PIN if the user is protected by the BitLocker TPM+PIN"
Source link : https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-gu...CVE-2024-20666
Seems real funny how that most all versions of Windows 11, the WinRE update is fully automated in the MS update but for all versions of Windows 10 it needs to be done manually ........ I call BS and scaremongering, it looks to me in order to even bypass the BitLocker Device Encryption they would need to have physical access to the devices recovery partition, it does not look as though this is something that could be done remotely.
Last edited by PanosG; 09 Jan 2024 at 19:10.