OSNews > Thread > "Just what we needed" by mcduck

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 10th Jan 2006 12:46 UTC, submitted by Resolution

Just when you thought the insanity was over, researchers claim that two new WMF exploits (along with proof of concept code) have been identified in the wild. This news comes just days after Microsoft released an 'out of cycle' patch for a newly discovered WMF exploit. The new flaws affect fully patched versions of Windows 2000, Windows XP (SP2 included) and Windows Server 2003.

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Just what we needed

by mcduck on Tue 10th Jan 2006 13:03 UTC

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2005-11-23

No big suprise.

Hopefully Microsoft will patch those way faster than last time.

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RE: Just what we needed

by Googlesaurus on Tue 10th Jan 2006 13:57 in reply to "Just what we needed"

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2005-10-19

I'm not sure how it gets much faster than last time, unless you just create a hacked up patch and toss it out there without testing it.

While it doesn't take long for them to create a patch, testing isn't a five second process.

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RE[2]: Just what we needed

by Celerate on Tue 10th Jan 2006 14:19 in reply to "RE: Just what we needed"

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2005-06-29

"I'm not sure how it gets much faster than last time"

Someone takes it more seriously this time around. You honestly can't be telling me that a company as big as Microsoft needs that long to patch a problem in the very same code that they've only just finished working on fixing days earlier.

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