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New Remote Flaw In 64-Bit Windows 7

Posted by samzenpus on from the hole-in-the-wall dept.

Trailrunner7 writes "Researchers are warning about a new remotely exploitable vulnerability in 64-bit Windows 7 that can be used by an attacker to run arbitrary code on a vulnerable machine. The bug was first reported a couple of days ago by an independent researcher and confirmed by Secunia. In a message on Twitter, a researcher named w3bd3vil said that he had found a method for exploiting the vulnerability by simply feeding an iframe with an overly large height to Safari. The exploit gives the attacker the ability to run arbitrary code on the victim's machine."

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  1. So all 5 of you running Safari on Windows by elrous0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Watch out!

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  2. Obviously this proves that... by forkfail · · Score: 5, Funny

    (check one)

    [ ] Microsoft products are far less secure than Apple. Because everyone knows that Safari is completely safe always on Apple machines, and only fails on Windows.

    [ ] Apple products are far less secure than Microsoft. Because obviously the hole in Microsoft security here is introduced through an Apple product, and really doesn't occur otherwise.

    [ ] If people were just running Linux, they wouldn't be having these problems.

    [ ] This is gonna be good. Ima gettin' my popcorn now!

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