Security News > 2023 > January > Microsoft fixes ODBC connections broken by November updates
Microsoft has fixed a known issue affecting Windows apps using ODBC database connections after installing the November 2022 Patch Tuesday updates.
This issue impacts both client and server Windows platforms, from Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 SP2 up to the latest released Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022.
Microsoft said today that this month's Patch Tuesday updates address "a known issue that affects apps that use Microsoft Open Database Connectivity SQL Server Driver to connect to databases."
As Redmond revealed in December, impacted apps might fail to connect to databases with the help of Microsoft's ODBC SQL Server driver after installing the November Patch Tuesday updates.
To check if apps that use ODBC connections fail to fetch data, you can launch them and then run the "Tasklist /m sqlsrv32.dll" command from a Command Prompt window.
Other issues triggered by November's Patch Tuesday updates were also addressed during the last two months, including domain controller sign-in failures and other authentication problems and freezes and restarts on some domain controllers caused by an LSASS memory leak issue.