Neowin News Feed for: Kb5012170

Microsoft seemingly pushes buggy Secure Boot update again on Windows 11, Windows 10

Sayan Sen — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 10:18:01 +0000

Microsoft has pushed the KB5012170 security update on Windows 11 and Windows 10 once again. The update, supposed to patch a Secure Boot DBX GRUB vulnerability, has known issues in it. Read more...

Microsoft acknowledges it pushed buggy update on Windows 11 and Windows 10 22H2

Sayan Sen — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 05:42:01 +0000

Following reports of Microsoft pushing a buggy update on Windows 11 22H2, the software giant has acknowledged the issue and has added that the update was pushed onto Windows 10 22H2 as well. Read more...

Microsoft pushes Windows 11 22H2 Secure boot DBX update that's known to be bug-ridden

Sayan Sen — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 18:09:30 +0000

Microsoft is starting to push the KB5012170 security update on Windows 11 22H2. The update supposed to patch a Secure Boot DBX GRUB vulnerability, though, has a lot of known issues. Read more...

Microsoft confirms BitLocker issues in the latest Windows updates

Taras Buria — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 06:58:01 +0000

Microsoft has acknowledged what users have been reporting for several days. As it turns out, the Security update for Secure Boot DBX causes some computers to boot into BitLocker recovery. Read more...

Users report KB5012170 is causing their PCs to boot into BitLocker recovery

Taras Buria — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 09:38:01 +0000

As it turned out, KB5012170 generates lots of headaches for customers. Besides the need to update UEFI to install updates, it causes multiple computers to boot into BitLocker recovery. Read more...

Microsoft warns about Windows update fails, UEFI update might be necessary to fix

Taras Buria — Sat, 13 Aug 2022 10:06:01 +0000

Microsoft has issued a warning about a Secure Boot DBX update failing to install on all supported client and server Windows versions. According to the documentation, a BIOS update might be necessary. Read more...

KB5012170: Microsoft August Patch Tuesday fixes critical Secure Boot GRUB vulnerability

Sayan Sen — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 04:22:02 +0000

With Patch Tuesday recently, Microsoft released the KB5012170 update which adds new vulnerable UEFI signatures to the Secure Boot DBX. The newly added signatures are related to the GRUB vulnerability. Read more...