First Windows Vista Security Update Released

Posted by Zonk on Sunday January 15, 2006 @08:29AM 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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Re:And it wasn't audited while porting?! by NetJunkie · 2006-01-15 08:42 · 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....
The first one .... by antek9 · 2006-01-15 08:45 · Score: 4, Funny

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

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

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