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Registry vulnerabilities addressed by MS10-021

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Registry vulnerabilities addressed by MS10-021

MS10-021 addresses eight different Windows vulnerabilities. Five of them, CVE-2010-0234 through CVE-2010-0238, stem from an obscure bit of Windows registry functionality called “registry links”. A quick search in MSDN reveals this description: “REG_LINK: Specifies a Unicode symbolic link. Used internally. Applications do not use this type”. Clear as mud, right? Registry links are similar to symbolic links in NTFS (http://msdn.