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"In researching new code injection techniques for Windows, enSilo researchers discovered a way that attackers could use to write malicious code into an atom table and force applications using the table to retrieve and execute the code."

http://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilit ... ?print=yes

"An attacker that gains access to a Windows machine can easily use AtomBombing to inject code to any process that has equal privileges. But it is not a privilege-escalation attack, meaning it cannot be used to inject an administrative account from a non-administrative one

Whatever.
This is a normal vulnerable and the malware need to be started, so yes. A started malware can and will make damage to the system, period.
No matter what for damage or which exploit.

I think an important point here is that the relevant malicious code could be very hard to detect in antivirus or similar scans.

thanks