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Microsoft releases WMF update patch five days early

by Jordan Running on January 6, 2006 at 02:00 PM

Rather than waiting until Tuesday to release a patch for the much-publicized WMF vulnerability as most have anticipated, Microsoft got its act together and released an official patch yesterday. You can download the patch from Microsoft here or from Windows Update. Unfortunately there's no patch for Windows NT and Windows 2000 (pre-SP4) users or Windows 98/ME users whom, Microsoft claims, aren't really at risk. Marc Orchant over at the Unofficial Microsoft Weblog has the details, plus an overview of what's coming in Microsoft's regular patch release on Tuesday.

Tags: exploit, microsoft, patch, vulnerability, windows, wmf

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