Highly critical zero day vulnerability in Windows discovered
Posted on: 12/20/2011 02:30 PM

H Online posted a story that a vulnerability in the 64-bit version of Windows 7 may permit attackers to run malicious code with kernel privileges

Highly critical zero day vulnerability in Windows discovered


Secunia has reported that an unpatched security vulnerability in the 64-bit version of Windows 7 may be able to be exploited to inject and execute malicious code; currently, the only known exploit causes the system to crash.

It is possible to trigger a memory error in the system file win32k.sys by accessing a crafted HTML file in Safari.



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