Vista Can Be Taken Down by an Animated Cursor

30 03 2007

Ok, this is just too classic…

Keznews: “In what could be the most embarrassing exploit to impact Windows Vista
since its commercial launch in January, security engineers at McAfee’s
Avert Labs confirmed today - and posted the video to prove - that the
operating system can be caused to enter an interminable
crash-restart-crash loop, by means of a buffer overflow triggered by
nothing more than a malformed animated cursor file.”


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