Microsoft has fixed a critical vulnerability affecting ALL Windows versions since 1996

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Researchers have shown that a vulnerability in a decades-old Microsoft Windows component that controls printing could be abused by malicious actors to gain elevated privileges on the targeted system, and it's been sitting in plain sight in every version of Windows since NT 4.0.



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