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ATI driver flaw exposes Vista kernel to attackers

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08-12-2007

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ATI driver flaw exposes Vista kernel to attackers

An unpatched flaw in an ATI driver was at the center of the mysterious Purple Pill proof-of-concept tool (http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=427) that exposed a way to maliciously tamper with the Windows...

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