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Two New WMF Bugs Found

Posted by Zonk on from the patch-patch-patch-senora dept.

Resident Egoist writes "Via PCWorld the news that two new Metafile bugs have been found, just a week after the patching of previous critical WMF issues." From the article: "All three flaws concern the way Windows renders images in the Windows Metafile (WMF) format used by some CAD (computer-aided design) applications, but these latest flaws are far less serious than the vulnerability that Microsoft patched last week, according to security experts. That vulnerability was serious enough to cause Microsoft to take the unusual step of releasing an early patch for the problem, ahead of its monthly security software update."

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  1. Microsoft is up to the challenge. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's going to be tough on them, but they really hope that windows can surpass the number of vulnerablities in unix/linux.

  2. M$ not working hard enough on bugs.... by cralewyth · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wouldn't this make 6 bugs on *nix - two for each of cedega, wine & crossover?

    ... Microsoft will never catch up.

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  3. I am sorry to report . . . by Yeechang+Lee · · Score: 2, Funny

    . . . that any Windows PC used to read this Slashdot story is now infected with a worm that exploits these WMF security holes.

    Darn banner ads!

  4. Re:The real question is... by hurfy · · Score: 2, Funny

    "have to upgrade machines because their old one isn't powerful enough to run their apps AND all the "keep me safe" software."

    So did you talk them into upgrading? I find loading up anything good on an old box is a noticable slowdown :(

    Actually have the same problem at office, i cant run the AV/Firewall and actually use our main program at the same time :( The program we need will run on anything but still need windows/IE for a couple programs. However the AV/firewalls i tried absolutely hate the terminal emulator program, they want to check EVERY keystroke whcih tosses speed out the window :/ Too tough to explain why the 2GHZ celeron is slower than the .2GHZ dos box was....

    Upgrading because we cant run the security, yet we can run the needed programs (all quite happy on anything with a pentium) is a tough sell to say the least.

  5. Re:"Hacker" by Krach42 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Call me a cinic, but I just can't read that and believe that the decriminized word "hacker" were the intentions of the author. Also, I am highly sceptical that most people reading the text would not immediately assume "black hat" hacker.

    I even read it that way.

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