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Two New Windows Zero-Days Exploited in the Wild — One Affects Every Version Ever Shipped (thehackernews.com)
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..."The vulnerable driver ships with every version of Windows, up to and including Server 2025," Adam Barnett, lead software engineer at Rapid7, said. "Maybe your fax modem uses a different chipset, and so you don't need the Agere driver? Perhaps you've simply discovered email? Tough luck. Your PC is still vulnerable, and a local attacker with a minimally privileged account can elevate to administrator."...

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[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, until something like this happens again a year or two down the line. Not to mention all unpatched or lagging systems

[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 days ago

It already happened with Windows 7. They still released the patch there.