Facts About the WMF Flaw

The WMF exploit is made possible because of a design flaw. In other words, according to F-Secure, it's not a bug, it's a feature. And F-Secure says this design mistake may have been around since the days of Windows 3.0. As SANS says, "the Microsoft WMF vulnerability is bad. It is very, very bad." Here are five other facts about the WMF exploit that is leaving all of us Windows users very, very vulnerable.

Also see:
• Details of the WMF Image Handling Exploit
• How to Avoid the WMF Image Handling Exploit
• WMF Exploit: Urgent Update
• Timeline of Image File Exploits