Security administrators should have a pretty easy time of it next Tuesday as Microsoft says it will issue just two updates in its monthly security software release. Microsoft said Thursday that next week's updates will include a critical update for the Windows operating system as well as a less-serious "important" Windows update.

Microsoft has been working on a fix for buggy antipiracy that has been shipping with Windows for the last few years and security experts believe that this will be one of the flaws fixed next week. The bug lies in the secdrv.sys driver built by Macrovision that ships with Windows XP, Server 2003, and Vista, but Vista is not vulnerable to the problem, according to Microsoft. The software vendor is aware of "limited attacks" that exploit this vulnerability to get elevated privileges on a victim's machine.

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(2 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by El Sid on 09 Nov 2007 - 12:57
Why is it that Microsoft have to fix flaws in other companies' software?
Quote this comment #1.1 Posted by night_stalker_z on 09 Nov 2007 - 14:12
Its probably better that Microsoft fix it than Macrovision since they know the OS better. Or they could not use 3rd party software so that 3rd party bugs wont be introduced.
Quote this comment #1.2 Posted by GP007 on 09 Nov 2007 - 14:48
MS gets blamed for the problems even if it's not something that's part of Windows or made by MS. So they might as well fix whatever they can anyways. They're damned if they do and damned if they don't.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by Joseph21 on 09 Nov 2007 - 17:42
in case on apple.. with macs have problems... its because some faulty radeon graphics... the hell?
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