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Zero Day Exploit Found in Windows Media Player
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."
Seems to be a bit like finding holes in swiss chese... inevitable....
Physics is nothing like religion. If it was, we'd have an easier time trying to raise money!
Doesn't affect my Vista machine. Nor my XP Pro machine running IE7 + WMP 11.
Seeing things like this, I can't help but wonder what it might look like if every time a flaw was discovered in *Nix, and a security advisory (even if barely remotely applicable, as in this case) were released,and slashdotted. Maybe this post is flamebait too (seems to be my trend as of late), maybe not. But the title of this particular post, is pretty misleading.
0 day flaw! Congratulations. It's software. I still play games that if they run for more than 2 hours I'm lucky. The real problem is the testing, and the coding that goes into these. You fix one thing, and something else inevitably breaks.
How often does a kernel update in Linux break something that you now have to update, or sometimes roll back alltogether because they won't work.
This post is as Overdramatic as going nuts every single time something in Linux broke or didn't work right. Sometimes MS deserves to be thumped on the head. This time though, seriously, come on. Tell you what, run your 4 byte program that is gonna hax0r my computer. I invite it, might give me something to do.