CVE-2017-3116

Adobe Acrobat Reader 2017.009.20058 and earlier, 2017.008.30051 and earlier, 2015.006.30306 and earlier, and 11.0.20 and earlier has an exploitable memory corruption vulnerability in the MakeAccessible plugin when parsing TrueType font data. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code...

Notes on Windows Uniscribe Fuzzing

Posted by Mateusz Jurczyk of Google Project Zero Among the total of 119 vulnerabilities with CVEs fixed by Microsoft in the March Patch Tuesday a few weeks ago, there were 29 bugs reported by us in the font-handling code of the Uniscribe library. Admittedly the subject of font-related security ha...

KLA10856 Multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows

Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in Microsoft Windows. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to bypass security restrictions, execute arbitrary code, gain privileges or obtain sensitive information. Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities 1. An improper embedded...

The vulnerability of Thunderbird software, which allows a malicious actor to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information.

The use of this tool after its release in FontTableRec within Mozilla Firefox, Firefox ESR, and Thunderbird allows malicious actors who operate remotely to execute arbitrary code by improperly handling the fonts contained in MathML. This leads to incorrect processing of the DirectWrite font objec...

(Pwn2Own) Microsoft Windows PFFOBJ::bDeleteLoadRef Font Use-After-Free Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Microsoft Windows. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the handling of...

(Pwn2Own) Microsoft Windows NtGdiGetEmbUFI Information Disclosure Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows local attackers to leak sensitive information on vulnerable installations of Microsoft Windows. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the handlin...

Apple OS X TTF Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Apple OS X is an operating system from Apple. A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Apple OS X TTF. The vulnerability stems from a failure to properly handle TTF fonts and bdat tables, allowing an attacker to exploit the vulnerability to elevate privileges and execute arbitrary code...

CVE-2016-2790

The graphite2::TtfUtil::GetTableInfo function in Graphite 2 before 1.3.6, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.7, does not initialize memory for an unspecified data structure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unknown othe...

USN-2904-1 thunderbird vulnerabilities

Karthikeyan Bhargavan and Gaetan Leurent discovered that NSS incorrectly allowed MD5 to be used for TLS 1.2 connections. If a remote attacker were able to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could be exploited to view sensitive information. CVE-2015-7575 Yves Younan discovered that...

CVE-2016-2790

The graphite2::TtfUtil::GetTableInfo function in Graphite 2 before 1.3.6, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 45.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.7, does not initialize memory for an unspecified data structure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unknown othe...

FreeBSD : graphite2 -- code execution vulnerability (8f10fa04-cf6a-11e5-96d6-14dae9d210b8)

Talos reports : - An exploitable denial of service vulnerability exists in the font handling of Libgraphite. A specially crafted font can cause an out-of-bounds read potentially resulting in an information leak or denial of service. - A specially crafted font can cause a buffer overflow resulting...

graphite2 -- code execution vulnerability

Talos reports: An exploitable denial of service vulnerability exists in the font handling of Libgraphite. A specially crafted font can cause an out-of-bounds read potentially resulting in an information leak or denial of service. A specially crafted font can cause a buffer overflow resulting in...

Libgraphite Bidirectional Font mFeatureMap Denial of Service Vulnerability

Talos Vulnerability Report TALOS-2016-0060 Libgraphite Bidirectional Font mFeatureMap Denial of Service Vulnerability February 5, 2016 CVE Number CVE-2016-1522 Description An exploitable NULL pointer dereference exists in the bidirectional font handling functionality of Libgraphite. A specially...

Libgraphite LocaLookup Denial of Service Vulnerability

Talos Vulnerability Report TALOS-2016-0061 Libgraphite LocaLookup Denial of Service Vulnerability February 5, 2016 CVE Number CVE-2016-1521 Description An exploitable denial of service vulnerability exists in the font handling of Libgraphite. A specially crafted font can cause an out-of-bounds re...

Apple OS X CoreGraphics Font File Handling Code Execution Vulnerability

Apple OS X is an operating system developed by Apple Inc. Apple OS X CoreGraphics handles font files with a security vulnerability that allows attackers to exploit the vulnerability to build malicious fonts that can be tricked into parsing by applications, which can crash the application or execu...

Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities (3104503)

This host is missing a critical security update according to Microsoft Bulletin MS15-128. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only...

Apple iOS Font File Handling Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Apple iOS is the latest operating system that runs on Apple's iPhone and iPod touch devices. A security vulnerability in the handling of font files in Apple iOS allows an attacker to construct a malicious font file and trick an application into parsing it, which can crash the application or execu...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2627-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Microsoft windows DirectWrite Library OpenType Font Handling Sensitive Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Microsoft Windows is a popular operating system. A security vulnerability exists in Microsoft Windows DirectWrite, which allows remote attackers to exploit the vulnerability by failing to properly handle OpenType fonts, allowing them to construct malicious font files that can be parsed by users a...

Apple iOS Font Handling File Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Apple iOS is the latest operating system that runs on Apple's iPhone and iPod touch devices. A memory corruption vulnerability exists in the handling of font files in Apple iOS, which allows attackers to construct malicious font files that can be parsed by an app and can execute arbitrary code...