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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The following letter describes a vulnerability in National Instruments’ software. If you are using LabVIEW or one of their other packages, please follow the directions to
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Recently, a security vulnerability was discovered in ActiveX components installed with National Instruments software. NI has created updates to eliminate the vulnerability. All users of NI software
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If you distribute an application that includes NI software components, then your end users’ systems might also be vulnerable.
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