Microsoft patches graphics bugs

**Glaswegian** · 04-09-2008, 03:37 PM

Microsoft has issued a critical patch for two vulnerabilities in the core graphics subsystem of Windows, as part of its monthly batch of fixes.

The company released a total of five critical patches in its April security bulletin, known as Patch Tuesday. Two of them fix bugs in Windows, two fix bugs in Windows as well as Internet Explorer (IE), and one fixes a vulnerability in Microsoft Office. The critical rating means an attacker could potentially exploit the flaws to hack into a victim's computer. The other patches fix vulnerabilities in Windows and Office and were rated "important."

MS08-021 fixes two vulnerabilities in Windows' graphics device interface (GDI), one of three core Windows subsystems, that could allow a hacker to take over someone's computer if a user opens certain kinds of image files, according to Microsoft.

http://www.techworld.com/security/ne...S&NewsID=11930

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