Threat Against Windows, Including Vista

TThe Microsoft Security Response Center may have had a slight delay in the beginning of their Christmas holiday, with reports of a public exploit against the Client Server Run-Time Subsystem in Windows 2000 SP4, Windows Server 2003 SP1, Windows XP SP1, Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista operating systems. According to their blog, the attacker must have authenticated access to a computer system in order to carry out the attack, which makes it potentially less damaging. More interesting, however, is that Vista is included on the list of vulnerable systems. Read the whole thing at http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/12/22/new-report-of-a-windows-vulnerability.aspx.