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Bugs in Windows DNS Client Open Millions Of Users To Attack

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Oct 10, 2017

In this month’s Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has included fixes for multiple critical memory corruption vulnerabilities in the Windows DNS client, which could be exploited by attackers to gain access to the target’s system. The vulnerabilities, collectively identified as CVE-2017-11779, were discovered by Bishop Fox researcher Nick Freeman, and they are present in Windows 8 through Windows 10, and Windows Server 2012 through 2016.
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