The Downadup/Conficker worm’s sudden surge in early 2009 forced a brutal reminder onto the Windows ecosystem: unpatched systems and lax patch management can turn ordinary desktops and servers into the backbone of a global botnet in a matter of days. (computerworld.com)
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Resolves a vulnerability in the Server service that could allow remote code execution if a user received a specially crafted RPC request on an affected system.
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