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zdiWushi of team509miaubizZDI-12-054
HistoryMar 26, 2012 - 12:00 a.m.

Webkit fontface Invalid Font Family Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

2012-03-2600:00:00
wushi of team509miaubiz
www.zerodayinitiative.com
23

0.092 Low

EPSS

Percentile

94.7%

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Webkit. 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 parsing and utilization of font objects. When the code parses the @font-face CSS element it does not validate that the font-family is legitimate. Later, if the same font-family is applied within CSS the code will access an invalid element of its internal font object. This can be leveraged by a remote attacker to execute code under the context of the user running the browser.