MAJOR,MAJOR GDI+ BUFFER OVERFLOW IN WINDOWS
Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 6:20 am
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/av ... 11173.html
Take this really, really seriously, because this is really, really big.
Symantec (and a few other sources) basically say that every single windows system that uses MSIE is vulnerable to this problem.
heres a writeup on what it does: http://www.easynews.com/virus.html
the image that displays (!) is basically a WHITE, BLANK IMAGE.
Therefore someone could place this on say google.com, or cnn.com, and mess EVERYONES days up.
The only workaround ive seen for this is to use an alternate browser. i know for a fact that netscape and mozilla arent affected, and opera doesnt seem affected.
edit: there are patches for all of the microsoft operating systems on the symantec write up page. click the link that corresponds to your OS and youll be patched
Take this really, really seriously, because this is really, really big.
Symantec (and a few other sources) basically say that every single windows system that uses MSIE is vulnerable to this problem.
heres a writeup on what it does: http://www.easynews.com/virus.html
the image that displays (!) is basically a WHITE, BLANK IMAGE.
Therefore someone could place this on say google.com, or cnn.com, and mess EVERYONES days up.
The only workaround ive seen for this is to use an alternate browser. i know for a fact that netscape and mozilla arent affected, and opera doesnt seem affected.
edit: there are patches for all of the microsoft operating systems on the symantec write up page. click the link that corresponds to your OS and youll be patched