Microsoft Windows OpenType Font File Format Denial of Service. Zero Day vulnerability in ATMFD.DLL, causes BSoD and 100% CPU. Triggered by opening a malicious .OTF font file
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OpenType font file format remote (client-side) DoS exploit for Windows
By Oleksiuk Dmytro (aka Cr4sh)
http://twitter.com/d_olex
http://blog.cr4.sh
mailto:[email protected]
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INFO:
Zero day vulnerability exists in kernel-mode library ATMFD.DLL, that using by OS for working with PostScript-based OpenType font files (.OTF)
Vulnerable versions of Windows/ATMFD.DLL: all, x32 and x64.
Opening malicious .OTF font file, that can be embedded in Microsoft Office document or web-page, causes a BSoD on NT 5.x (Windows XP, Server 2003) and 100% CPU overage on NT 6.x (Vista, 7, Server 2008).
To trigger vulnerability -- double click on CFF_Type-1_0x0d_expl.otf
The point of vulnerability -- invalid decoding of 0x0d byte in the Type 2 Charstring Format Glyph, that drops ATMFD.DLL code into the infinite loop.
"good" glyph representation:
[68]={
95 112 99 65 61 vhcurveto
endchar
}
Malicious glyph representation:
[68]={
95 112 99 65 reserved13
vhcurveto
endchar
}
This vulnerability was found with MsFontsFuzz fuzzer, that can be downloaded on https://github.com/Cr4sh/MsFontsFuzz
More detailed vulnerability analysis can be found at http://blog.cr4.sh/2012/06/0day-windows.html (russian, use Google Translate).
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https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb-bin-sploits/-/raw/main/bin-sploits/19089.rar
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