MS11-023 failing

(imported topic written by mmcgrew91)

Is anyone else seeing MS11-023 failing multiple times?

The action failed.

This action has been applied 1 time and will not be applied again.

Status Failed

Start Time 4/13/2011 8:15:31 PM

End Time 4/13/2011 8:16:05 PM

Action Script Execution Detail

Completed download http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/E/9/2E90BB53-839E-48BF-A48C-9E918E057E39/Office2007-kb2509488-fullfile-x86-glb.exe

Completed continue if {(size of it = 9212072 AND sha1 of it = “e912695e0c2fbe068a8fae5ef3ea9b8876535e27”) of file “Office2007-kb2509488-fullfile-x86-glb.exe” of folder “__Download”}

Completed waithidden __Download\Office2007-kb2509488-fullfile-x86-glb.exe /quiet /norestart

Completed action may require restart “e912695e0c2fbe068a8fae5ef3ea9b8876535e27”

(imported comment written by go-noles91)

Yes, it’s the only thing that’s currently being identified as outstanding. Funny, that I’m actually running Office 2003 Small Business. Ran the “Repair” for Office successfully, but didn’t help. Can’t find any hint on where the problem lies.

(imported comment written by bendernet91)

Just pushed out all the updates and 5 failed on this MS11-023 out of 10 workstations. Whats up? Any luck?

(imported comment written by JackCoates91)

anything in the event viewer?

(imported comment written by SystemAdmin)

we are seeing this as well for this patch. The action script details show completed but the Exit Code shows 17031 for most of the ones that failed. We deployed this patch to about 5000 machines as part of a baseline and the failure rate appears to be about 3% of the machines. This is a little bit higher than our usual failure rate but not overly alarming.

Researching the 17031 error and from what I found on Google is that it usually means that a prerequisite may not be installed (detection: Invalid Baseline).

OPatchInstall: Property ‘SYS.PROC.RESULT’ value ‘17031’

This code indicates that the version of the Office installation does not match the version that is expected. The patch is not applied.

referenced: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179058(office.12).aspx

I checked a few of the failures and some of them do have Office 2007 SP2 installed, a few did not. Since our failure rate was low enough I did not really research it much further than finding the error code and what that means.

(imported comment written by JackCoates91)

do these systems have compatibility pack installed?

(imported comment written by SystemAdmin)

JackCoates

do these systems have compatibility pack installed?

Some do and some dont

I spot checked ~15 machines and it looked like the ones that failed that have Office 2007 SP2 installed did not have the compatibility pack (except for one). Most of the machines that did have the compatibility pack installed did not have SP2 installed.

(imported comment written by mmcgrew91)

from running the update manually I get “The expected version of the product was not found on the system†. Then why is it showing relevant for the computer?

(imported comment written by JackCoates91)

Hi,

we’ve done some research on this and it looks like SP2 and compatibility pack are required, as tsikma is seeing. A baseline approach might do the trick:

baseline relevance: office 2007 installed

component: 64001

component: 64003

optional component: MS10-087 (superseded)

component: MS11-023

We’re looking into how best to modify the stock fixlets to reflect this without hiding existence of the vulnerability.

(imported comment written by JackCoates91)

Hi,

this issue should be corrected now. Per the content modification announcement:

“Fixlet 1102311 has been modified to check for the Office Compatibility Pack 2007. If it exists, but it’s outdated, the fixlet will fail. A second action has been added to automatically install the updated version of the compatibility pack if an outdated version of it is found on systems that are relevant for MS11-023.”

(imported comment written by Kenz91)

I’m still having an issue with this. Is anyone else? Out of 1400 workstations I’m getting about a 9% failure rate.

(imported comment written by BenKus)

Hi Kenz,

Perhaps contact support and they can gather some details for you.

Ben

(imported comment written by Nitin9109)

Hello Ben,

Is there any update available for the above mentioned issue as i have many machines failing this fixlet resulting in compliance issues and i have the same kind of issue with one more patch MS11-045.

We have Office Compatibility SP2 installed on our machines. Seems to have some issues with the relevance code written which makes the machine applicable but when try to install the same fails due to version mismatch.

Please confirm if any updates are available further on the same.

(imported comment written by Kenz91)

Here is what I’ve found. The machines that are failing have Office 2007 SP2 installed but not the compatability pack. The problem is the install of the compatability pack using BigFix fails. If I go to the machine and do a manual install it will work. So something appears to be wrong with the comp pack install part of BF. Looking at the file that the BigFix action is downloading from Microsoft it doesn’t appear to be the same as the one when you go to Microsoft’s site and look for compat pack for Office 2007 SP2.

(imported comment written by Kenz91)

Another thing I don’t understand about this one is that according to Microsoft’s website it doesn’t say anything about the compatability pack being vulnerable. It even goes on to say that Compatability Pack SP2 is not affected.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS11-023.mspx

(imported comment written by Kenz91)

Really having trouble figuring out what should be installed and why this thing is failing. Maybe I’m not understanding the Compatibility Pack. there is the SP2 for compatibility pack http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=12439

but it has an earlier date than the actual compatibility pack http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=3

I have machines that have Office 2007 SP2 that say they are relevant but when I try to push out the patch neither of the actions work. They come back as a fail. I checked one of these machines and it doesn’t even have the Compatibility pack installed. So just to see what would happen I tried to manually install Ms11-023 and it said not expected version. I then installed the the Compatibility pack from the second link then tried again. Same result. I then tried to install the Compatibility Pack SP2 from the first link and it wouldn’t install because there was already a newer version.

Any idea what the heck is going on with this patch?

(imported comment written by Kenz91)

It looks like MS11-036 is having the same kind of issues with failed installs and it’s a compatibility pack patch like MS11-023

(imported comment written by SystemAdmin)

Kenz,

We are having a similar issue here with Office installs… In one of the previous posts you mentioned that installing the compatibility pack resolved your issue, but in one of the later ones you said that that fix was no longer. can you please confirm if compatability pack installation resolves the issue?

Thank You,

Alex