Article ID: 2490606 - Last Review: June 10, 2011 - Revision: 4.1

Vulnerability in Graphics Rendering Engine could allow remote code execution

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The security update that this article described has been replaced by a newer update. We have released security bulletin MS11-006 to address this issue.
For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
2483185  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2483185/ ) MS11-006: Vulnerability in Windows Shell Graphics Processing could allow remote code execution
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