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Attack Code Found For Recent Windows Bug

Posted by Soulskill on from the oh-by-the-way dept.

CWmike writes "Just a day after downplaying the vulnerability that caused it to issue an out-of-cycle patch last week, Microsoft warned customers late yesterday that exploit code had gone public and was being used in additional attacks. 'We've identified the public availability of exploit code that now shows code execution for the vulnerability addressed by MS08-067,' said Mike Reavey, operations manager of Microsoft's Security Response Center, in a post to the MSRC blog. 'This exploit code has been shown to result in remote code execution on Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000.'"

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  1. That's it! I'm switching to a Linux Desktop by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Slashdot's unbiased coverage of an exploit for a patch that was released last week has finally convinced me to stop using MS products. I'm also beginning to think this MS might be evil as well.

  2. Re:Hmmm... by Dogtanian · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, to be fair, their discussion took place on Wiki pages, so it was either Ubuntu 8.04 or HAHAHHAYOUSUCKCOCKS.

    Yeah, I can see that some 13 year old vandal might think that it was funny to replace "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2" with something silly like, er... "Ubuntu 8.04" ;-)

    BTW, HAHAHHAYOUSUCKCOCKS 2.06 is a fine server distro and I won't hear a word against it.

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  3. Re:Hotpatching by sleeponthemic · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh yeah? Well, uh, nyah.

    $ uptime ; uname -r 00:40:23 up 1222 days, 14:10, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 2.6.11-hardened-r14

    You made that post 51 minutes after he did.

    So close, but forever in his shadow :-)

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