Microsoft then patched it again in January 2022, but this second fix was also found to be ineffective.

Third Time Lucky

The bug was discovered by security researcherAbdelhamid Naceri, who thendismissed Microsofts patchesas ineffective.

Kolsek explains that a lot of time usually passes between identifying a vulnerability and delivering a fix.

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0patch also helps secure popular but unsupported versions of Windows, such as Windows 7.

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