Moogie
06-09-2004, 06:03 PM
<table width="90%" border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="1" bordercolor="#63635A" bgcolor="#E7E7E2" align="center"><tr><td style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic;">On the second Tuesday of each month, Microsoft issues a set of security updates, and this month's offering is slightly less alarming than usual. The company released only two patches, both rated moderate. Microsoft says that the patches fix problems with DirectPlay and the Web viewer in Business Objects' Crystal Reports and Crystal Enterprise.<br> <br>Microsoft says it recently discovered a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in DirectPlay and is fixing that problem in this month's security patch releases. Part of the Microsoft DirectX multimedia gaming libraries, DirectPlay is a programming interface that certain online games use, and the vulnerability in its code affects multiple DirectX versions that run on a variety of Windows releases. "If a user is running a networked DirectPlay application, an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could cause the DirectPlay application to fail," states the Microsoft support bulletin that describes the flaw. "The user would have to restart the application to resume functionality." <br></td></tr></table><br><br>Read more <a href="http://www.winnetmag.com/Article/ArticleID/42928/42928.html"><u>HERE.</u></a><br><br>