First Windows Vista Security Update Released

Bard Of Vim writes "Microsoft has issued critical security patches for beta testers running the Windows Vista December CTP (Community Technology Preview) and Windows Vista Beta 1, and warned that the new operating system was vulnerable to a remote code execution flaw in the Graphics Rendering Engine. The Vista patches address the same vulnerability that led to the WMF (Windows Metafile) malware attacks earlier this month. The recent out-of-cycle security update for the WMF vulnerability (see slashdot coverage) makes no mention of Windows Vista being vulnerable, but with the release of this weekend's patches it is clear that the poorly designed 'SetAbortProc,' the function that allows printing jobs to be canceled, was ported over to Vista."

Comments

Re:Frist patch

[IntlHarvester]

Look flameboy -- don't you think bringing up Windows ME is slightly ironic while Apple is plungering MacOS 9 down the toliet? At least WinME software still runs.

No, Apple needed a rewrite, couldn't do it themselves, and bought someone else's legacy problems. Of course, I wouldn't expect a coherent historical view of things from a guy who's post boils down to OOG SAY MACS GOOD WINDOWS BAD. OOG BREAK HEAD WITH INTEL IMAC.

Anyway, there's nothing wrong with OS X -- you just get all the legacy code with none of the backward-compatibility, that's all.

Re:I find such a lack of consistency . . .

[vcv]

http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/securi ty/holes/story/0,10801,98920,00.html

Idiot