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Security Alert - Urgent – Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop Services

IT Alert

This is notice of a new vulnerability, similar to wannacry, which has just been patched by Microsoft. Microsoft’s description of the vulnerability follows: “A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Remote Desktop Services – formerly known as Terminal Services – when an unauthenticated attacker connects to the target system using Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) and sends specially crafted requests. This vulnerability is pre-authentication and requires no user interaction. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could execute arbitrary code on the target system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. “To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need to send a specially crafted request to the target system’s Remote Desktop Service via RDP.” Patching of supported OSs (Windows 7, Server 2008 – 2008R2) This patch will be made available to systems using central patching Frid