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posted by on Monday February 20 2017, @06:24PM   Printer-friendly
from the black-hats-now-have-a-month-to-play dept.

For the second time in three months, Google engineers have disclosed a bug in the Windows OS without Microsoft having released a fix before Google's announcement. The bug in question affects the Windows GDI (Graphics Device Interface) (gdi32.dll), which is a library that enables applications to use graphics and formatted text on both the video display and a local printer.

According to a bug report filed by Google's Project Zero team, the bug was initially part of a larger collection of issues discovered in March 2016, and fixed in June 2016, via Microsoft's security bulletin MS16-074. Mateusz Jurczyk, the Google engineer who found the first bugs, says the MS16-074 patches were insufficient, and some of the issues he reported continued to remain vulnerable. Following subsequent tests, the researcher resubmitted his bug report in November, which Microsoft failed to patch in the 90 days interval Google allows vendors to fix bugs before going public with its reports.

This is the second time Google has taken this step against Microsoft after in November 2016 it disclosed details about a zero-day exploited by a cyber-espionage group known as APT28 (Strontium) a few days before Microsoft's November Patch Tuesday. Back then, Google said it took this step to allow users to protect themselves until Microsoft published a patch. Microsoft's Terry Myerson, Executive Vice President, Windows and Devices Group, didn't see it the same way, describing Google's actions as "disappointing" because it put customers at greater risk of exploitation.

Source:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/after-microsoft-delayed-patch-tuesday-google-discloses-windows-bug/


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 21 2017, @01:15AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 21 2017, @01:15AM (#469527)

    Do the connections make sense now, my dear AC? Do I need to explain it one more time?
    Loud and clear. You are an ass with the mentality of a twelve year old who still thinks replacing $ for S is ROTFLMAOBBQ funny still. Got it.

    Also today I learned from aristarchus that I am a microsoft shill. Where do I sign up for my shill money? Do they have some sort of payment system?

    And of course, Stockholm is in Sweden, and as everyone knows, something terrible happened in Sweden,
    Again you are trying to make it political. Perhaps you need to re-evaluate who you are and why you are posting on the internet. There are plenty of political boards out there to spew you stupid junk. I may suggest https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/ [reddit.com] They like making sweeping generalizations there. I have even heard you can get paid to do it too.

    My point is I wanted them to go slow and actually fix it right before giving me broken software. Somehow you turned that into I am a shill. You are mental.

  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by aristarchus on Tuesday February 21 2017, @01:33AM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Tuesday February 21 2017, @01:33AM (#469536) Journal

    My point is I wanted them to go slow and actually fix it right before giving me broken software. Somehow you turned that into I am a shill. You are mental.

    Now I see your point! But that does not affect my point, which is that you have no right to speak for "us". You are a Microsoft user? You want them to "fix" it? This would be funny, if it were not so sad. Not sure which is worse, the "wanting", or the believing a fix is possible. There is only one solution: You must cease using proprietary software. You are hurting the rest of the world. Whether you are being paid to do this or not is not relevant. And you do seem to be a bit touchy about the whole thing. Do you think that Mi¢rǿṩoʄt could come up with a patch for your attitude? You seem to be incorrectly identifying "mentals".

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 21 2017, @03:51PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 21 2017, @03:51PM (#469729)

      so you're saying you enjoy botched windows upgrades. got it.

      • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday February 21 2017, @06:18PM

        by aristarchus (2645) on Tuesday February 21 2017, @06:18PM (#469800) Journal

        so you're saying you enjoy botched windows upgrades. got it.

        Actually, I am saying I have never seen one! The last Windoxa system I ran was Win95. Oh, wait, that means I must have seen some, but there was no internet with Win95, only some patched together TCP/IP stack called Trumpet using winsock, or something, so the botch usually involved floppy disks. But I haven't "enjoyed" Micro$erf "upgrays" since circa 1996. You can do the same thing! Come to the Linux side! Now with systemd, to make windows refugees feel more at home. Act now, before there is another executive order banning refugees.