Microsoft released two emergency updates to address the “aCropalypse” security gap which affects the native screenshot editing applications of Windows 10 and 11.
Such as he says Bleeping Computer, the company began testing a patch for the vulnerability earlier this week, shortly after it was discovered by software engineer Chris Blume.
On Friday afternoon, Microsoft began to publicly release them updates για το Snipping Tool των Windows 11 καθώς και την εφαρμογή Snip & Sketch των Windows 10. Μπορείτε να ζητήσετε τις ενημερώσεις με μη αυτόματα από τα Windows ανοίγοντας το Microsoft Store, by clicking on “Library” and then “Get updates”.
Microsoft recommends that all users install the updates.
The aCropalypse flaw was first discovered in Appliances Pixel της Google που το διόρθωσε στην last update security (March) of Android.
In the case of Windows 11 Snipping Tool, it turned out that the auxiliary program was not correctly replacing clipped data in PNGs. This problem did not affect all PNG files, but there was concern that malicious users could exploit the vulnerability to recover edited images, particularly those that had been cropped to delete sensitive information.
As with Google's March Android update, Microsoft's updates will not protect images previously created with screenshot tools.
