The critical vulnerability in the Schannel technology in Windows that Microsoft patched is ripe for exploitation, experts say, and continues the long line of severe vulnerabilities in major SSL/TLS implementations in recent months.
The technology is in every supported version of Windows, and it can be exploited remotely by unauthenticated attackers. The company said that the vulnerability was found during a “proactive security audit”. That vulnerability enables an attacker to read the memory of systems protected by vulnerable versions of the software under certain circumstances.
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