Vulnerability found in Vista kernel

Austrian researcher Thomas Unterleitner has discovered a glitch in Windows Vista--a buffer overflow flaw within Vista's networking I/O subsystem. This kernel vulnerability could result in an irrecoverable blue screen of death crash, as well as allow attacks ranging from denial of service, injection of rootkits, or malware, such as viruses or keyloggers. Unterleitner claims that Microsoft has been notified of this vulnerability since October, though the company says it won't fix the glitch before the next service pack, which has not yet been announced. Administrator privileges are required at this point to exploit the issue, which affects both the 32-bit and 64-bit of the Vista operating system--though not Windows XP. Windows Vista has been touted as more secure than both Linux and the Mac OS, hence any vulnerabilities--especially in its kernel--is sure to get peoples' attention.

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