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Microsoft Sits on Security Flaw for Six Months

Posted by michael on Tuesday February 10, 2004 @09:13AM from the you've-already-been-hacked dept.

pmf writes "Yet another critical vulnerability affecting Windows 2000/XP/2003 has been just announced by eEye. It is worthy to note, that it took Microsoft over 6 months to fix it. The bug affects ASN.1 library and is remotely exploitable through authentication subsystems (Kerberos, NTLMv2) and applications that make use of SSL certificates." The AP has an overview.

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Re:Alert the media... by caluml · 2004-02-10 10:20 · Score: 4, Offtopic

You guys are so uptight about this nipple thing. Someone on UK TV said "F**king c**ts" with 12 million people watching, and only about 80 people complained.

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