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  Microsoft's borrowed code may pose risk
Time: 00:49 EST/05:49 GMT | News Source: CNET | Posted By: Robert Stein

As reported earlier this week by CNET News.com, a flaw in the zlib software-compression library could leave much of the systems based on the open-source operating system Linux open to attack. On Thursday, the researchers who discovered the flaw reported that at least nine of Microsoft's major applications--including Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, DirectX, Messenger and Front Page--appear to incorporate borrowed code from the compression library and could be vulnerable to a similar attack.

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