Sony, Gracenote warned about Microsoft product security errors

Sony and digital music database provider Gracenote recommend that users should quickly install the newly discovered ActiveX patch in Microsoft products.

ActiveX is a technology that allows downloading of multimedia programs or files through web pages. However, security vendors have recently discovered a buffer overflow security error in this technology. Not only the malicious code exploiting this security bug has been released online.

Security errors in ActiveX relate to a multi-media feature of this technology. Hackers can fully exploit this error to break into a user's system or cripple the Internet Explorer web browser.

Source: Microsoft However, Microsoft is currently conducting further investigation of this security error. It is expected that until the next monthly security update, this patch will be released.

This is the reason why Sony and Gracenote digital music service provider must warn users, because malicious code can be embedded in multi-media files to work. User attack tool.

' The above security error may allow hackers to download and execute malicious code on the user's system ,' Gracenote announced on its website.

Gracenote said that they have not received any reports of users being attacked through the security error. Only a few customers using Microsoft Windows operating system face the risk of being attacked.

Meanwhile, Sony has provided a list of a range of products at risk and warned users to upgrade to the new version of the software, including Sony Connect Player and Sony SonicStage. .

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