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Another day, another WMF vulnerability

by Jordan Running on January 10, 2006 at 06:20 PM

MicrosoftActually, two of them. Fortunately, this new set of vulnerabilities, discovered only days after Microsoft released a patch for the recently-discovered and very dangerous previous WMF vulnerability, is much less serious. Rather than allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary code on your system, these two new vulnerabilities only allow a malicious person to crash the viewer, e.g. Internet Explorer, if you are tricked into viewing the image. PC World has more on the new bugs, which we probably won't see a patch for until next month.
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Tags: bug, flaw, microsoft, security, vulnerability, wmf

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