Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Real VML Patch is Out

F-Secure - Real VML patch is out

"Microsoft has released a patch against the VML vulnerability outside of their normal update cycle. Which is great.

The patch is available right now via update.microsoft.com.

Get It" [Post Leached In Full]

From Update.Microsoft.com;

"A security issue has been identified in the way Vector Markup Language (VML) is handled that could allow an attacker to compromise a computer running Microsoft Windows and gain control over it. You can help protect your computer by installing this update from Microsoft. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer.  Details... "

I sure you'll be seeing this everywhere, so consider this a "Note to Self" post...  ;)

In my case, on two machines, it installed easily but did need to reboot one (on the machine I hadn't yet unregistered the DLL).

Related Past Post XRef:
IE/Windows VML Exploit - Short Term Fix

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