Friday, August 15, 2008
Windows machines are still vulnerable to a range of security flaws that the company has failed to address.
Such is the claim of ZDNet blogger Ryan Naraine, who has noted that despite issuing patches for 26 vulnerabilities this month, it is yet to release a fix for a widely-publicized vulnerability in the Windows Media Player (WMP) program.
Furthermore, other long-known network security issues affecting a slew of programs developed by the company are still to be fixed, he stated.
Among these was a carpet bombing attack known to affect Internet Explorer, while a web proxy auto-discovery flaw has not been addressed, despite being publicly discussed at a security conference in December.
He continued: "The list above applies only to publicly known issues. Can you imagine what's out there that's not yet public?"
The WMP flaw was identified in the company's advanced security bulletin, although a patch was held back this month because of "last-minute quality issues".
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