Posted in ISC on July 30th, 2010 by ISC Handler
Microsoft is planning to release an out of band patch addressing the Shortcut vulnerability. The patch is scheduled for release on Monday, August 2nd, at 10am PDT.
As confirmed by Microsoft, a number of malware families started incorporating the vulnerability in their exploit repertoire. For more details, see the Microsoft Technet blog post [1]
[1] http://blogs.technet.com/b/msrc/archive/2010/07/29/out-of-band-release-to-address-microsoft-security-advisory-2286198.aspx
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Johannes B. Ullrich, Ph.D.
SANS Technology Institute
Twitter (c) SANS Internet Storm Center. http://isc.sans.org Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
As confirmed by Microsoft, a number of malware families started incorporating the vulnerability in their exploit repertoire. For more details, see the Microsoft Technet blog post [1]
[1] http://blogs.technet.com/b/msrc/archive/2010/07/29/out-of-band-release-to-address-microsoft-security-advisory-2286198.aspx
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Johannes B. Ullrich, Ph.D.
SANS Technology Institute
Twitter (c) SANS Internet Storm Center. http://isc.sans.org Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
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