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32-bit Windows 7, Vista, XP Affected by 17-Year-Old EoP Vulnerability
32-bit Windows 7, Vista, XP Affected by 17-Year-Old EoP Vulnerability The 64-bit flavors of Windows are safe
By Marius Oiaga, Technology News Editor
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Windows operating systems are in essence evolving from one release to another, with some pieces of code surviving across multiple iterations of the platform. It is the case of the BIOS calls in the Virtual-8086 mode monitor code which was introduced in Windows NT 3.1, released in 1993 and that survived until this day in Windows 7. In this regard, Microsoft has confirmed information made public detailing a vulnerability contained in every release of the Windows NT kernel and dating back 17 years.
The Redmond company released Security Advisory 979682 to help customers mitigate the vulnerability until a patch is made available. The Windows NT #GP Trap Handler security hole, discovered and documented by Google engineer Tavis Ormandy, can potentially allow an attacker to elevate an existing account on a 32-bit (x86) Windows machine to full administrative privileges. This is nothing more than an Elevation of Privilege (EoP) vulnerability affecting the Windows kernel. It only impacts versions of 32-bit Windows, including XP, Vista and Windows 7. 64-bit (x64) Windows flavors are in no way affected.
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32-bit Windows 7, Vista, XP Affected by 17-Year-Old EoP Vulnerability
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