This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted image file. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the current user. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.

Microsoft recently released preview evaluation versions of Windows 8.1 and their Server 2012 R2 Datacenter software. Nice to know that the old Utilman login bypass that has worked since Windows 95ish still works even on the latest and greatest. A quick Linux boot and a simple rename of the original Utilman.exe out of the way.…