DLSS Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 Vista Exploit Surfaces on Russian Hacker Site Proof-of-concept exploit code for a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting all versions of Windows—including Vista—has been posted on a Russian hacker forum, forcing Microsoft to activate its emergency response process. Mike Reavey, operations manager of the Microsoft Security Response Center, confirmed that the company is “closely monitoring†the public posting, which first appeared on a Russian language forum on Dec. 15. It affects “csrss.exe,†which is the main executable for the Microsoft Client/Server Runtime Server. According to an alert cross-posted to security mailing lists, the vulnerability is caused by a memory corruption when certain strings are sent through the MessageBox API. “The PoC reportedly allows for local elevation of privilege on Windows 2000 SP4, Windows Server 2003 SP1, Windows XP SP1, Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista operating systems,†Reavey said in an entry posted late Dec. 21 on the MSRC blog. sources : http://edge.i-hacked.com , http://www.eweek.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ABC Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 god the list of holes in VISTA starts ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deveant Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 lol gonna be yet another delay in the realse of the long awated vista? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ABC Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 vista is out allready LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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