CVE-2017-0290
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Microsoft just fixed a serious Windows Defender bug
Over the weekend, Google Project Zero researchers Tavis Ormandy and Natalie Silvanovich tweeted about discovering "the worst Windows remote code exec in recent memory." According to Ormandy, it could work against a default installation and even become "wormable" -- able to replicate itself on a targeted machine and then spread to other computers automatically. Now we know more about what the problem is since, in just two days, Microsoft's Security Response Center and Windows Defender developers were able to come up with a fix that is now available via Windows Update for Windows 7, 8.1, RT and 10 (according to Microsoft, the Control Flow Guard security feature lowers the risk of this attack on 8.1 and 10), as well as other versions that IT professionals may be more familiar with.
