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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."

3 of 317 comments (clear)

  1. No firewalls? by lumbercartel.ca · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Don't people use firewalls anymore?

    --
    The Lumber Cartel, local 42 (Canadian branch)
    British Columbia, Canada
  2. Re:Yeah, right. by daveb · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    oh come on - you're suggesting that XP (especialy with SP2) is NOT significantly more secure than win2k, win98 or even NT4ws - and you are very very wrong.

    XP is way more secure - there's no getting away from it (unless you stick your head in the sand screaming "it ain't it ain't").

    The truth is that there is so much further to go.

    Next I'll be hearing that XP can't be installed by normal users and doesn't impliment a WIMP interface.

    as for Vista - I'm looking forward to using it - my current experience is that it really does make better use of graphics cards and SATA drives. But I don't expect to read any such articles here.

  3. Sorry -- by zo219 · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    . ..can't .. .type. .. ow . . getting stitch from laughing . . so . . hard . .