grc.com — A serious new remotely exploitable Windows vulnerability has been discovered in a highly-used and readily exploitable Windows component. The "SHIMGVW.DLL" is used for rendering Windows Metafiles, but can reportedly also be invoked whenever Windows attempts to display non-metafile images as well.
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mrnraDec 30, 2005Submitter
The security now Podcast by Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte has a very good description of the problem which was just detected yesterday December 28.
jtibbleJan 1, 2006
And today they have a fix... provided by Ilfak Guilfanov. DIGG THIS TO SPREAD AWARENESS!!!