19 years! Microsoft's Tuesday patch finally fills in Windows 95 vulnerability

Microsoft released 16 security patches yesterday, repairing a bunch of security vulnerabilities in Windows, Office, IE, .NET and other components, but perhaps few people know One of the loopholes has existed for 19 years!

This vulnerability appeared on Windows 95 and has been inherited since, but it was not until May of this year that IBM's network security research team discovered it and called it the Windows operating system. Major weaknesses”.

IBM researchers said that the code for this vulnerability has been lying quietly there, so that it can be used maliciously by hackers for many years, and can be used to remotely control any computer, and this is also Windows. The most common way of exploiting vulnerabilities.

In terms of security and operational considerations, IBM did not disclose the details of the vulnerability.