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Two New Windows Zero-Days Exploited in the Wild — One Affects Every Version Ever Shipped (thehackernews.com)
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..."The vulnerable driver ships with every version of Windows, up to and including Server 2025," Adam Barnett, lead software engineer at Rapid7, said. "Maybe your fax modem uses a different chipset, and so you don't need the Agere driver? Perhaps you've simply discovered email? Tough luck. Your PC is still vulnerable, and a local attacker with a minimally privileged account can elevate to administrator."...

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The patch is for Windows 10, Windows 11, and Server 2008 up to Server 2025.

Further, there's companies that make custom-built modern machines that support classic PCI and modern operating systems and classic operating systems.

It's conceivable that legacy systems are using modern OSes with virtualization running a legacy OS and legacy PCI cards, for example. It's not beyond the realm of possibility.

https://nixsys.com/legacy-computers/pci-slot-computers

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 hours ago

Further, there's companies that make custom-built modern machines that support classic PCI and modern operating systems and classic operating systems.

Yeah, some extremely expensive equipment at my job runs on Adobe Flash. Modern machines won’t even allow Flash to run because it’s so insecure. We just updated the control PC for that equipment last year; It’s a computer that is dual-booting Windows 11 and Windows XP. It boots into WinXP by default, to be able to run Flash. Then if you ever need to update it, you can swap over to Win11 to be able to connect to the internet.