[VulnDiscuss] RE: Opentype font file causes Windows to restart.

"Discini, Sonny" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.vulnerabilities.watch.general,gmane.comp.security.bugtraq
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Windows98 - No reboot. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 10:37 AM
To: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: Opentype font file causes Windows to restart.


Problem
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The attached OpenType font file will cause Windows to restart
immediately when the file is opened by the default viewer (fontview). I
doubt anyone would suspect a "harmless" little font file of being able
to cause such a thing to happen!

Software affected
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It has been tested on both Windows 2000 and Windows XP with exactly the
same result -- an immediate restart.  Other versions of Windows are
untested.

Fix
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No fix known.



- Andrew Connell
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