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Days after Microsoft (advanced) a patch brought out round a crtical leak to close, thinks a safeties expert a new vulnerability in the Windows-part found to have. Microsoft minimizes the impact of the question.

It was a hacker named Frank Ruder that Tuesday on the BugTraq-mailinglist information published about the new vulnerabilities. The leaks was found of according to the message in the Graphics Rendering Engine (GRE) of Windows and be with - again - an image in WMF-size to abuse. It would be however not possible via the vulnerabilities within to break on a pc.

What not will say that the new leak innocent be: according to Frank Ruder can a hacker via these away a Denial-or-Service-attack export, what can lead till the getting jammed from a pc.,.

But according to Microsoft, it do not goes here a safeties problem. “A first investigation through Microsoft wisest from that this no vulnerabilities be, but earlier performance problems that for it see to that a program stops with works”, declared a Microsoft-representative against colleagues of CNet. MS do not concludes does 'get jammed' that the vulnerability Windows, but only an application: “An user can the program again reboot and further work.”

Joris wild Boars, CNet.