Microsoft has issued an advisory for a vulnerability in a component of a small number of Windows versions. The company judges the compromise as very difficult to pull off. Theoretically, it could result in remote code execution, but is much more likely to hang and then reboot the system.
The 64-bit versions of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, as well as the Itanium version of Windows Server 2008 R2, are vulnerable to an attack against the Canonical Display Driver (cdd.dll), part of the desktop composition components of Windows.
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