Microsoft Security Advisory (927891)

Purpose of Advisory: To provide clarification and notification of the availability of the update to address this issue.

Advisory Status: Microsoft Knowledge Base Article and associated update were released.

Recommendation: Review the referenced Knowledge Base Article and apply the appropriate update.

This advisory discusses the following software.

What is the scope of the advisory?
This advisory clarifies the Microsoft Knowledge Base Article and its associated update. The update does not correct a security vulnerability, but is instead an update for the error conditions that are described above. This update affects the software that is listed in the Overview section.

For more information, see Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 927891.

How do I know whether this issue affects me?
You may be affected by this issue if you observe the conditions, listed earlier, on your computer when trying to update by using Microsoft Update, Automatic Updates through the Internet or through Windows Server Update Services, Systems Management Server Inventory Tool for Microsoft Updates, or Windows Update.

Won’t this issue affect the installation of this update?
This update will install correctly even if the computer is already affected by this issue. However, you may be unable to install other updates until you install this update.

This is a security advisory about a non-security update. Isn’t that a contradiction?
Security advisories address security changes that may not require a security bulletin but may still affect customer’s overall security. Security advisories are a way for Microsoft to communicate security-related information to customers about issues that may not be classified as vulnerabilities and may not require a security bulletin, or about issues for which no security bulletin has been released. In this case, we are communicating the availability of an update that affects your ability to perform subsequent updates, including security updates. Therefore, this advisory does not address a specific security vulnerability; rather, it addresses your overall security.

Review the Microsoft Knowledge Base Article that is associated with this advisory

We encourage customers to install this update. Customers who are interested in learning more about this update should review Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 927891.

For more information about the terminology that appears in this advisory, such as update, see Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 824684.