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Security Protection - Harry Waldron (CS)

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Linux users may be impacted by WMF in Windows emulation mode

 In sharing with some users in one of the forums, the question was asked regarding whether Wine or CrossOver Office are impacted (i.e., as they provide an emulation environment to run Windows applications in Linux).  In researching this there may indeed be impacts and it's important to apply any associated updates:

Wine Potential WMF "SETABORTPROC" Vulnerability
http://secunia.com/advisories/18323/
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=346197