Exploits Already Out For New Microsoft Vulnerabilities
Friday, 14 October 2005 by Michel Roth
An exploit was released Wednesday for the most dangerous of the 14 vulnerabilities that Microsoft unveiled Tuesday, making the appearance of a worm virtually a lock, said a security expert. The exploit is against the MSDTC vulnerability within Windows, which was patched Tuesday by Microsoft and outlined in its MS05-051 security bulletin. Because the MSDTC component -- which coordinates any sort of transaction on multiple servers -- is enabled by default and remotely exploitable on Windows 2000 systems, experts fear that the bug will result in a repeat of the Zotob attacks of August. Most security analysts named the flaw as the most dangerous of Tuesday's bunch.

But MS05-51 isn't alone anymore... Exploits for MS05-044, MS05-045, and MS05-048 are also in the wild.

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