Firefox Posted May 9, 2017 ID:1123261 Share Posted May 9, 2017 Microsoft releases emergency patch for 'crazy bad' Windows zero-day bug Microsoft has released a patch rapidly developed to combat a severe zero-day vulnerability discovered only days ago. Late Monday, the Redmond giant issued a security advisory for CVE-2017-0290, a remote code execution flaw impacting the Windows operating system. The security vulnerability was disclosed over the weekend by Google Project Zero security experts Natalie Silvanovich and Tavis Ormandy. On Twitter, prominent vulnerability hunter Ormandy revealed the existence of a zero-day flaw in Microsoft Malware Protection Engine (MsMpEng), used by Windows Defender and other security products. The researcher deemed the find a "crazy bad" bug which may be "the worst Windows remote code exec [execution flaw] in recent memory."............. Read Full Story at ZDnet web site here: Microsoft releases emergency patch for 'crazy bad' Windows zero-day bug Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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