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Zero Day Exploit Found in Windows Media Player

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the back-to-old-tricks dept.

filenavigator writes "Another zero day flaw has been reported in Windows Media player. It comes only one day after a serious zero day flaw was found in word. The flaw is dangerous because it involves IE and Outlook's ability to automatically launch .asx files. No fix from Microsoft has been announced yet."

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  1. Another 0-day? by gregleimbeck · · Score: 5, Funny

    Must be Thursday.

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    1. Re:Another 0-day? by TheShadowHawk · · Score: 2, Funny

      I thought it was Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays when holes are found. I guess they are right on track. :P

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  2. Hmm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nah.

  3. Re:Danger: Four-byte programs could be launched? by russ1337 · · Score: 3, Funny

    >>>>Anybody know of any four-byte long spyware programs?

    No, but "del /F /S /Q " might fit if you squeeze it.

  4. Re:Finding holes in a MS product.... by telchine · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is anyone else getting a feeling of Deja Vu?

  5. Re:Finding holes in a MS product.... by jpetts · · Score: 4, Funny

    Who said that?

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  6. Re:Fix found for zero day flaw by Gothmolly · · Score: 1, Funny

    Where's the "-1, Gay" modifier when you need it?

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  7. Re:This must be by mctk · · Score: 4, Funny

    Actually, this isn't the second Zero Day Exploit. The first one was a Nullity Day Exploit. But we don't have to worry about that one.

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  8. It could be fixed already by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    But it is not a flaw in the DRM, ao why ahould Microsoft care?

  9. Re:Finding holes in a MS product.... by muszek · · Score: 3, Funny

    Everyone check out this funny movie [free-porn-toolbar.com]

  10. Anti-Troll Measures by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Where's the "-1, Gay" modifier when you need it?

    It got removed from slashcode at the same time the "-1, Nigger" mod went.

  11. To quote Bizarro Gates by WankersRevenge · · Score: 1, Funny

    4 bytes should be enough for anybody

  12. Re:WMP11 Has Serious Exploit by Propaganda13 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just re-installed Windows on a computer and updated everything except WMP11.

    Don't worry I installed Debian too.

  13. Zero-day exploit by Schraegstrichpunkt · · Score: 3, Funny

    Was a new version of Windows Media Player released today or something?

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  14. Re:This must be by CyborgWarrior · · Score: 5, Funny

    And that's how black holes came about. Read your bibles people!! I quote from it:

    "And God saith, I shall divide by zero.

    And big black things did appear.

    And God saith, I shall not do that again."

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  15. Re:Finding holes in a MS product.... by VitaminB52 · · Score: 5, Funny
    Seems to be a bit like finding holes in swiss chese... inevitable....

    Please stop insulting the Swiss. Swiss cheese is completely unlike MS security:

    • Swiss cheese is cheese with holes in it, not holes with cheese around it.
    • Swiss cheese is a quality product.

    If you insists on comparing MS security with a cheese product, then compare it with foam-cheese :-)

  16. Oh, So Happy It's Thursday by wowbagger · · Score: 3, Funny

    Microsoft had two
    Oh
    So
    Happy
    It's
    Thursday
    moments this week so far: Tuesday's 0-day in Word (which has an exploit) and this one Friday (which currently does not have an exploit).

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  17. Mod parent redundant... by M00TP01NT · · Score: 2, Funny

    Could have sworn parent made this same comment a few moments ago...