Windows Vulnerability in Animated Cursor Handling

MoreDruid writes "Secunia reports a vulnerability in Windows Animated Cursor Handling. According to the linked article, the rating is "extremely critical". Microsoft has put up their own advisory on the subject, confirming this is a vulnerability that affects Windows 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista. The exploit has already been used in the wild. From the Secunia page: The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in the handling of animated cursors and can e.g. be exploited by tricking a user into visiting a malicious website using Internet Explorer or opening a malicious e-mail message. Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code."

Comments

WTF?

[Anonymous Coward]

Can we add the "hahaha" tag to this one? Seriously, another flaw in the freakin mouse pointer? Microsoft's security is a joke. This vulnerability is a disgrace.

It's all relative

[Headcase88]

What the fuck is WTF? Is it really that hard to type those two extra words?

Re:Why does it get to be this bad?

[DoofusOfDeath]

As many as 3 children could have died over the last 10 years because of this!" Suddenly all news organizations act as though the sky has fallen, and on slow news day, it is even the lead story!

Because speaking as a parent, I'm much, much more terrified about my child dying than I am about Vista crashing.

I don't care about something that's (medium probability, low impact) nearly as much as I care about something that's (low probability, worst-case impact).

Windows Vulnerability in Antimater Containment

[jimstapleton]

I read "Windows Vulnerability in Antimatter Containment Field" when I first saw that... I must be too tired. Regardless, that's more interesting than the actual article, so maybe being to tired isn't a bad thing.