{"id":199442,"date":"2017-02-20T09:15:49","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T07:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=199442"},"modified":"2017-02-20T09:16:58","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T07:16:58","slug":"google-discloses-windows-gdi-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/199442-google-discloses-windows-gdi-bug.html","title":{"rendered":"Google discloses Windows GDI bug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has disclosed a Windows GDI bug. This is the second time in three months that Google has revealed a bug in the Windows OS without Microsoft having released a fix, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/microsoft\/after-microsoft-delayed-patch-tuesday-google-discloses-windows-bug\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Bleeping Computer<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The reported bug affects the Windows GDI (Graphics Device Interface) (gdi32.dll).<\/p>\n<p>The report further stated that the bug was\u00a0initially &#8220;part of a larger collection of issues discovered in March 2016, and fixed in June 2016, via Microsoft&#8217;s security bulletin MS16-074&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Google said the\u00a0MS16-074 patches were &#8220;insufficient&#8221;, and a new bug report was submitted in November 2016.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Microsoft failed to patch [the bug] in the 90 days interval Google allows vendors to fix bugs before going public,&#8221; said Bleeping Computer.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes after Microsoft recently delayed its\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/198958-windows-february-security-update-delayed.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Windows February security update<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/198946-office-sensors-check-if-you-leave-your-desk.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Office sensors check if you leave your desk<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has disclosed a bug which affects the Windows GDI, according to a report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":110808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[167,123,26970],"class_list":["post-199442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-google","tag-microsoft","tag-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199444,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199442\/revisions\/199444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}