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18 October 2007, 15:10

Unofficial Windows URI patch flawed

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In a somewhat shame-faced posting to Full Disclosure, KJK::Hyperion reports a bug in his original unofficial patch for the URI vulnerability, for which Microsoft finally accepted responsibility a week ago. In his own words, "I just found a gruesome memory leak in it. A silly bug, brown paperbag-grade shame." However, he has already posted a new version that supposedly fixes this problem, although independent patches such as this must always be treated with extreme caution. Meanwhile we still await an official solution from Microsoft.

(mba)

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