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Microsoft patched several Windows Vista gadgets this week, the first time it’s had to fix the small applications.
Microsoft Corp. Tuesday patched several Windows Vista gadgets, the first time it’s had to fix the small applications, prompting one researcher to mark the date as the real “arrival of the next-generation of vulnerabilities.”
The three bugs detailed in one of the nine bulletins issued Tuesday could let attackers inject their own malicious code into a victim’s Vista-powered PC, said Microsoft. Three of Vista’s bundled gadgets — the small applications that sit on the desktop, usually pulling information from other programs or off the Web — are flawed: the RSS, contacts and weather gadgets. The vulnerabilities in the RSS and weather gadgets are particularly dangerous, since both are enabled by default in a standard Vista installation.
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