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Warp2Search.net » News » November 2008 » Researchers find vulnerability in Windows Vista

Researchers find vulnerability in Windows Vista

Posted by: Philipp Esselbach on: 11/20/2008 08:30 PM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ] · 674 views

Infoworld reports that an Austrian security vendor has found a vulnerability in Windows Vista that it says could possibly allow an attacker to run unauthorized code on a PC.



The problem is rooted in the Device IO Control, which handles internal device communication. Researchers at Phion have found two different ways to cause a buffer overflow that could corrupt the memory of the operating system's kernel.

>> Researchers find vulnerability in Windows Vista



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