Security News > 2019 > August > Google Finds 20-Year-Old Microsoft Windows Vulnerability

2019-08-21 11:46
There's no indication that this vulnerability was ever used in the wild, but the code it was discovered in -- Microsoft's Text Services Framework -- has been around since Windows XP....
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