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HistoryAug 14, 2018 - 12:00 a.m.

Microsoft Windows Font Subsetting Integer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

2018-08-1400:00:00
Pengsu Cheng of Trend Micro Security Research
www.zerodayinitiative.com
22

0.229 Low

EPSS

Percentile

96.6%

This vulnerability allows remote 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 FontSub.dll module. Crafted data in a font file can trigger an integer overflow before allocating a buffer. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute under the context of the current process.