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You can't make blanket statements like that. It depends on where the vulnerability is. For example, Vista has a substantially-rewritten networking stack. A n
by tanzam75 13y ago
You can't make blanket statements like that. It depends on where the vulnerability is.
For example, Vista has a substantially-rewritten networking stack. A networking exploit in Vista would not necessarily translate over to XP.
On the other hand, there's a lot of legacy code around in GDI+ for decoding graphics formats. A file format exploit would be highly likely to carry over to XP.
- korethr 13y agoFair enough. I misunderstood the parent when posting that. Re-reading it and your comment, it makes more sense. That makes me curious as to just how much legacy code still exists in Vista/7/8/8.1, and where. I guess it's time for me to do some more research.