[/.] Attack Code Found For Recent Windows Bug

Attack Code Found For Recent Windows Bug

CWmike writes "Just a day after downplaying the vulnerability that caused it to issue an out-of-cycle patch last week, Microsoft warned customers late yesterday that exploit code had gone public and was being used in additional attacks. ‘We’ve identified the public availability of exploit code that now shows code execution for the vulnerability addressed by MS08-067,’ said Mike Reavey, operations manager of Microsoft’s Security Response Center, in a post to the MSRC blog. ‘This exploit code has been shown to result in remote code execution on Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000.’"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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