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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. Re:Clippy helps you get the most out of your PC by daniil · · Score: 0, Offtopic
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    Santa's sleigh!

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