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Windows Critical Remote Desktop Vulnerability

Wednesday, March 14th, 2012 at 12:13 pm

I wanted to take a moment to issue a warning to everyone running Windows with RDP enabled: a remotely exploitable vulnerability has been reported by Microsoft and its partners. We consider the potential scope and impact of this issue to be significant.

A hotfix is currently available, and all affected systems should be updated as soon as possible.

Systems affected: Windows XP SP2+, Windows Server 2003 SP2+, Windows 7 all versions, and Windows 2008 R2 all versions (though those using RemoteFX have a lower severity because the remote desktop service is not running with system privileges).

Please see the following links for more information.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms12-020
http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2012/03/13/cve-2012-0002-a-closer-look-at-ms12-020-s-critical-issue.aspx

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