It looks like that Redmond's hunch was correct when it issued an out-of-cycle security patch late last week, because on Wednesday Microsoft identified publicly available exploit code related to that vulnerability.
cycle securityOff-Cycle Microsoft Patch Targets Worm-Like Windows BugRedmond Developer News | News Wed, 10/22/2008 - 18:00
Redmond on Thursday released a critical out-of-cycle security patch affecting Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 systems. |
