Microsoft Windows 7 Hit By Zero Day Vulnerability

[Keith W]

Laurence Gaffié, a security researcher, has discovered a weakness in Windows 7 and published all the relevant details on the full disclosure mailing list archives at Insecure.org.

I have removed the link due to some sensitive AV programs reporting false positives, please search Google for the story

 

[neil_g]

i thought that was old news?

incidentally that link causes Avast to have a massive panic.

 

[neil_g]

using another link provided by google, this is indeed old news that was around since the RC.

basically it allows someone to crash the machine, so not really the end of the world. writers of malware prefer to make money via software rather than causing a nuicance.

 

[Mikesphotaes]

Only the second time my Avast has stirred this year!

 

[Keith W]

using another link provided by google, this is indeed old news that was around since the RC.

I think you may be mistaking this for another vulnerability.

 

[neil_g]

youre right im thinking of an issue within the bootup sequence.

both are kind of non-issues really, one you have to actually be sat at the machine to exploit and the other just reboots the machine.

 

[LemmingLover]

Keith is correct. Microsoft confirmed the vulnerability in an advisory on 13th November.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/977544.mspx