“Microsoft Corp. has shipped the first critical security update for Windows Vista, the next version of its flagship operating system,” Ryan Naraine reports for eWeek. “Over the weekend, the company released patches for beta testers running the Windows Vista December CTP (Community Technology Preview) and Windows Vista Beta 1, and warned that the new operating system was vulnerable to a remote code execution flaw in the Graphics Rendering Engine.”
“A Microsoft spokesperson told eWEEK that the Vista patches address the same vulnerability that led to the WMF (Windows Metafile) malware attacks earlier this month,” Naraine reports. “Microsoft’s out-of-cycle security update for the WMF vulnerability makes no mention of Windows Vista being vulnerable, but with the release of this weekend’s patches it is clear that the poorly designed “SetAbortProc,” the function that allows printing jobs to be cancelled, was ported over to Vista.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews reader “sailfish” for the link.]
MacDailyNews Take: Windows Vista (codenames: PigLipstick, Win XP SP3). Tries to look like a Mac, but still runs like Windows.
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