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17 year-old security flaw in NTVDM makes the DOS prompt an enterprise nightmare

It has come to light that there is a security flaw in the NTVDM (NT DOS virtual machine), which is the process that runs when you open a command prompt (DOS window) on any 32-bit version of Windows. This flaw has existed since the very first version of the service on Windows NT and could allow a specially written 16-bit application to escalate the user's rights to that of administrator -- ...