{"id":117431,"date":"2017-05-09T17:35:48","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T15:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=117431"},"modified":"2017-05-09T17:36:28","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T15:36:28","slug":"microsoft-fixes-critical-security-flaw-in-windows-defender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/117431-microsoft-fixes-critical-security-flaw-in-windows-defender","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft fixes critical security flaw in Windows Defender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/security\/4022344.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">issued a patch<\/a><\/strong> for a remote code execution vulnerability in the\u00a0Microsoft Malware Protection Engine.<\/p>\n<p>The engine was not scanning a specially-crafted file adequately, which Microsoft said led to memory corruption.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft Security Essentials and Windows Defender are affected.<\/p>\n<p>Other affected software includes various\u00a0Microsoft Endpoint Protection products.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could execute arbitrary code in the security context of the LocalSystem account and take control of the system,\u201d said Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An attacker could deliver the attack through a website, email, or a message from an IM\u00a0application.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the affected antimalware software has real-time protection turned on, the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine will scan files automatically, leading to exploitation of the vulnerability when the specially crafted file scanned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf real-time scanning is not enabled, the attacker would need to wait until a scheduled scan occurs in order for the vulnerability to be exploited.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft said its patch\u00a0fixes the issue by correcting the way the engine scans the file.<\/p>\n<p>The company did not receive any reports of the weakness being used to attack users before\u00a0the\u00a0security advisory was issued.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/209916-critical-windows-defender-security-flaw-left-pcs-vulnerable.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MyBroadband<\/a><\/strong> and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/207794-microsoft-will-deliver-two-major-windows-10-updates-a-year.html\">Microsoft will deliver two major Windows 10 updates a year<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has issued a patch for a remote code execution vulnerability in the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":79505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}