Monday, January 09, 2006

Two New WMF Vulnerabilities Found

Robert McMillan writes in InfoWorld:

Just days after Microsoft Corp. patched a critical vulnerability in the way the Windows operating system renders certain types of graphics files, a hacker has published details of two new flaws that affect the same part of the operating system.

The new vulnerabilities were posted to the Bugtraq security mailing list on Monday by a hacker going by the name of "cocoruder."

All three flaws concern the way Windows renders images in the Windows Metafile (WMF) format used by some CAD (computer-aided design) applications, but these latest flaws are far less serious than the vulnerability that Microsoft patched last week, according to security experts.

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