New Critical Bug In All Current Windows Versions

Posted by timothy on Friday January 28, 2011 @01:02PM from the innocent-whistling-sound dept.

Trailrunner7 writes "Microsoft is warning its users about a dangerous flaw in the way that Windows handles certain MHTML operations, which could allow an attacker to run code on vulnerable machines. The bug affects all of the current versions of Windows, from XP up through Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008. Microsoft issued an advisory about the MHTML vulnerability, which has been discussed among security researchers in recent days. There is some exploit code available for the bug, as well. In addition to the advisory, Microsoft has released a FixIt tool, which helps mitigate attacks against the vulnerability in Windows."

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Re:uhh by Hylandr · 2011-01-28 15:36 · Score: -1, Redundant

Flamebait on a very passionate and true posting. Evidence the astroturfers have Mod points.

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