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First Windows Vista Security Update Released

Posted by Zonk on from the pre-release-security-vulnerabilities-are-inspiring dept.

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."

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  1. I find such lack of security... by giorgiofr · · Score: 1, Funny

    ... disturbing.

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  2. Re:And it wasn't audited while porting?! by NetJunkie · · Score: 5, Funny

    You're right! They should fix these bugs before release...in some period where things are still be fixed. Maybe call it....Beta, yeah, that's it. Oh wait....

  3. The first one .... by antek9 · · Score: 4, Funny

    .... will probably call itself 'Hasta la vista, baby!'.

    Sorry, couldn't resist, please ignore...

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  4. Re:Does anyone else get the feeling... by noidentity · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Not true! Windows Vista was promised to be nearly completely backward-compatibile with previous Windows!"

    And it's working too; the latest exploit worked fine on Vista!

  5. Re:Frist patch by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    MacOS X, which is a complete slut for legacy code.
    I guess I am in love with a slut then. :-)
  6. Re:Frist patch by keytoe · · Score: 2, Funny
    which is a complete slut for legacy code.
    Yeah - all that legacy code with loose morals, years of testing and refinement. What a whore.
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  7. Total non story by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    A bug exists in a product 6 months away from release and we learn Microsoft hasn't rewritten every single line of code for Vista.

    Oh the humanity!

  8. Outlook? by Tony · · Score: 2, Funny

    But going forward MS is going a whole new outlook on security.

    That's funny. Outlook was one of Microsoft's first major security problems.

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