A group of researchers reported on this early Thurdays that they had found at least nine M$ applications, such as IE and FrontPage, could possibly be attacked because of the security flaw in the open source compression library that have been annouced earlier. Later on, M$ representatives said that the software giant's security response team has started the investigation of this issue to ensure whether or not those M$ applications would be vulnerable.
"It's not a foregone conclusion that the applications are affected," a company representative said.
The zlib has been using by *NIX environment for long, and could be found in any of these machines. Because the some of the codes have been adopted, M$ apparently made himself again into the security flaw issue.
By the list that has been annouced by the Members of the open-source compression project, it shows that there are about 600 applications that are affected by this security flaw, and nine M$ applications are on the list, too. There are Microsoft DirectX 8, FrontPage, the next-generation Graphics Device Interface, InstallShield, Internet Explorer, Office, NetShow, Visual Studio and Messenger. This is another nightmare for M$ because the next-generation Graphic Device Interface is a part of Windows XP, which means the operating system itself could be affected.
By the way, this is not the first time we have heard that M$'s issue of borrowing source code. Hence let's wait until next notice from M$ about this issue and see what they will say to clarify this security flaw.
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