More information about critical Microsoft security vulnerability

As anticipated in the blog entry I made earlier today, Microsoft has published a highly critical patch (known as MS08-067) for Windows users.

Vanja in our labs has described the issue in greater detail on the SophosLabs blog and there is a more detailed analysis, including Sophos’s own take on the vulnerability, in a technical advisory.

Of course, you should also read Microsoft’s own official advisory on their website and download the patch. (Did I mention that? Get patched.)

This is a very serious vulnerability – you are advised to patch any potentially affected systems as a matter of…

Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.

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