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Four New Unpatched Windows Vulnerabilities

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the most-wonderful-time-of-the-year dept.

peeon writes "Right before Christmas, four new Windows NT/2k/XP vulnerabilities were posted to the Bugtraq list. This story discusses two of the vulnerabilities in the LoadImage function (buffer overflow) and Windows Help program (heap overflow), but the Chinese company discovered two more exploits in the parsing of a specially crafted ANI file (causes DoS). A Bugtraq posting has more details."

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  1. It's not fair by RAMMS+EIN · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I admire the speed with which Slashdot brings me updates about Microsoft software. Now when will they start doing the same with F/OSS?

    Oh wait...they already do, but there's nothing to report...

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  2. Linux over 20 security patches released in 2 days! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    http://lwn.net/Alerts/

    I always laugh when some noob discovers Linux and actually believes it is safe to use. Just look at the last two days worth of security holes in it. The list goes on and on. It is like that everyday.

    Use free Linux, and invest a crap load of time patching its constant security flaws. There is no ROI here.

  3. Re:Forced Upgrade. by m50d · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And if I don't have the hard disk space for it?

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