Patch Tuesday: KB3023607 Breaks Cisco AnyConnect, Here's a Fix

If unreadable fonts and a broken PowerPoint aren't enough to get your hackles up this week, there's yet another patch that is causing considerable problems. KB3023607, which is the update designed to change the way the Transport Security Layer (TLS) works to eliminate the Poodle vulnerability, is causing headaches for users of the popular Cisco AnyConnect VPN application.

I use the app constantly to connect to the mother ship. This morning, in fact, I was all set to do my expenses (which is a hated, laborious task anyway), but was met with the following error when attempting to connect.

The problem has been verified by Cisco and the company is reported to be working with Microsoft for a permanent fix. But, a temporary fix is also available that includes allowing Windows to configure the compatibility for the application. The following is an expanded and tweaked version of the fix Chris Tierney posted to his blog:  Cisco AnyConnect "Failed to initialize connection subsystem"

To fix it, do this:

Now that it's temporarily fixed, I just have to build up the gumption again to finalize my expenses. The temporary fix is way easier than working through my obvious character flaw.