Windows Vulnerability Archives

Hackers Exploit Windows XML Core Services Vulnerability

20-June-201224-June-2012Prasanna Sherekar

An unpatched Windows vulnerability considered a critical threat by security experts is being exploited by cybercriminals. Microsoft disclosed the flaw in XML Core Services (MSXML) 3.0, 4.0 and 6.0 June 12 during its monthly release of patches. The security advisory, which was separate from the patch release, offered a workaround for vulnerability CVE-2012-1889, but no […]

Windows-7 Memory Corruption Vulnerability

21-December-20114-January-2012Prasanna Sherekar

A vulnerability has been discovered in Microsoft Windows, which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise a user’s system. The vulnerability is caused due to an error in win32k.sys and can be exploited to corrupt memory via e.g. a specially crafted web page containing an IFRAME with an overly large “height” attribute viewed […]