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ATTENTION, check this if you haven't seen it yet!
Saw that on the MSFN forum, and howto fix (if you can):
https://msfn.org/board/topic/179918-vulnerability-in-microsoft-ctf-protocol/
Highly dangerous security hole, existing since ages, but revealed only now. The vulnerable CTFMON.exe is a native Microsoft tool, contained in almost all Windows systems. Either natively or added by major software packs like MS Office.
The good news is, in most use cases it's a completely unnecessary feature and can quite easily switched off in the system settings. Out of luck seem users who need multilanguage-keyboards or Chinese-Japan-Korea languages, or speech input or text-readers if I understand it right. Haven't studied it too deeply, just a quick heads-up for other people like me who don't study regularly computer news :cool:
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/26/2019 08:41AM by siria.
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Another giant security hole in MS Windows: ctfmon.exe (howto fix, language settings)
Posted by:
siria
Date: August 26, 2019 08:40AM
ATTENTION, check this if you haven't seen it yet!
Saw that on the MSFN forum, and howto fix (if you can):
https://msfn.org/board/topic/179918-vulnerability-in-microsoft-ctf-protocol/
Highly dangerous security hole, existing since ages, but revealed only now. The vulnerable CTFMON.exe is a native Microsoft tool, contained in almost all Windows systems. Either natively or added by major software packs like MS Office.
The good news is, in most use cases it's a completely unnecessary feature and can quite easily switched off in the system settings. Out of luck seem users who need multilanguage-keyboards or Chinese-Japan-Korea languages, or speech input or text-readers if I understand it right. Haven't studied it too deeply, just a quick heads-up for other people like me who don't study regularly computer news :cool:
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/26/2019 08:41AM by siria.
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