Patch for WMF bug slated for next week

Patch for WMF bug slated for next week
Robert Lemos, 2006-01-03

Patch for WMF bug slated for next week 2006-01-03
Anonymous (3 replies)

Is this or is this not the vulnerability initially announced in early November?!...

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Re: Patch for WMF bug slated for next week 2006-01-03
Anonymous

It's different. They did a quick patch in November, but missed this problem....

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Re: Patch for WMF bug slated for next week 2006-01-03
Juha-Matti Laurio

It is not. Microsoft has confirmed this, see http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/912840.mspx -> Frequently Asked Questions:

Q: Is this issue related to Microsoft Security Bulletin MS05-053 - Vulnerabilities in Graphics Rendering Engine Could Allow Code Execution (896424) which was...

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Re: Patch for WMF bug slated for next week 2006-01-04
Anonymous

It's a different bug, in the same code...

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Patch for WMF bug slated for next week 2006-01-03
unix_punk

Is it just me or does this seem like something that warrents a special "non-scheduled" release of a patch? I mean this thing is very powerful, expecially with the other firms releasing there own versions BEFORE its patched? In this case, a week seems like a long time...Maybe I'm just paranoid......

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Patch for WMF bug slated for next week 2006-01-04
Anonymous

Regarding:

http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1011

and your story.

Gotta love Redmond's spin on this mess. My memory isn't the greatest anymore, but I think I recall Gates at several conferences in the last year or two bragging about how fast they could turn out security updates. 48 hou...

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Patch announced, but not released for 7 days?! 2006-01-04
cmkaiser

Phew, they have a patch!

So MS announces that they have a patch, for a zero day exploit, that is confirmed to have exploit code in the wild, with 50+ variations of the exploit and growing, that affects most versions of Windows, that results in arbitrary code execution on the victim machine, with ...

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Any Browser is afected? ( WMF bug ) 2006-01-04
Leandro C. Arantes

Sorry my bad english.

I didn't find if i will visit one site "infected" any browser, if i will infected.

So, with Firefox, mozilla, Netsacpe, opera, etc, i have the same problem?

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