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Zero-day WMF flaw underscores patch problems
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2006-01-12

For four days in January, network administrators and security-savvy home users had a choice: Download and install an unofficial open-source fix for the critical flaw in the Windows Meta File (WMF) format or wait an estimated week for an official patch from Microsoft.

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Unofficial fix eliminates GDI32 Escape() functionality in Windows 98SE 2006-01-16
Juha-Matti Laurio
Information about new unofficial patch to eliminate GDI32 Escape() functionality in Windows 98SE has been released on Saturday Jan 14:

http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/210

The author published source code (like Ilfak Guilfanov did) too and the process "was inspired by Ilfak?s fix f...

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