Microsoft releases fix for critical flaw in Windows font driver

[HEXUS]

The flaw exists in all supported versions of Windows.

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[lumireleon]

ohhhhh ADOBE is involved

[lumireleon]

Trend Micro..............thats strange where is Kaspersky? Bit-defender?

[Corky34]

Trend Micro..............thats strange where is Kaspersky? Bit-defender?

Busy defending themselves from nation-state attacks?

[Lucio]

Trend Micro..............thats strange where is Kaspersky? Bit-defender?

They spend less money on their press departments?

[xeryus]

The only way to get the KB3079904 security update is via Windows Update.

Or download it manually from: https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/MS15-078

[azrael-]

All currently supported versions of Windows are affected...

And also most unsupported versions of Windows (who'd have thought).

BTW, the Open Type font manager code is/was a collaboration between Adobe and Microsoft, so Microsoft is equally to blame here. Also, this is code that was (or should have been) audited as part of Microsoft's "Trustworthy Computing" initiative. Amazing, that it took almost two decades to root out this flaw.

[spl]

Amazing, that it took almost two decades to root out this flaw.

Same could be said about Shellshock and Heartbleed. Makes you think twice about the old 'many eyes' argument.