Vista's Security Rendered Completely Useless

Posted by kdawson on Friday August 08, @08:08AM
from the bypassing-memory-protection-safeguards dept.

scribbles89 sends in a story with that alarmist headline from Neowin.net; it does sound like it could be a game-changer. "While this may seem like any standard security hole, other researchers say that the work is a major breakthrough and there is very little that Microsoft can do to fix the problems. These attacks work differently than other security exploits, as they aren't based on any new Windows vulnerabilities, but instead take advantage of the way Microsoft chose to guard Vista's fundamental architecture. According to Dino Dai Zovi..., 'the genius of this is that it's completely reusable. They have attacks that let them load chosen content to a chosen location with chosen permissions. That's completely game over.'"