Microsoft has issued
a warning about a new vulnerability in the Windows Meta File (WMF) image format
that affects older versions of Internet Explorer.
The vulnerability exists in IE 5.5 running on Windows 2000 and IE 5.01 on
Windows ME.
Users of IE 6 or other Windows versions are not affected by this
vulnerability, Microsoft emphasised in a
security
advisory. Roughly five per cent of the world's computers run IE 5.
While the vulnerability is new, it behaves in a similar way to the
WMF flaw that Microsoft was forced to
patch last month.
The vulnerability could allow an attacker to take control of a system through
a specially crafted WMF image posted on a website or sent through a spam email.
Microsoft was forced to publish an out-of-cycle security
update in January to plug a first WMF vulnerability that affected all
Windows versions. Attackers were actively
exploiting the flaw at the time of the Microsoft patch release.
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