[28441] in bugtraq
RE: Opentype font file causes Windows to restart.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Naylor)
Wed Jan 15 15:41:39 2003
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From: Ben Naylor <ben.naylor@ciria.org.uk>
To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com, vulnwatch@vulnwatch.org
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 09:57:01 -0000
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Tested on Windows NT4 SP6a.
Had to force opening with fontview as it was not associated by default.
No restart, just message "Not a valid font file".
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew [mailto:aconnell@xtra.co.nz]
Sent: 06 January 2003 15:37
To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com; vulnwatch@vulnwatch.org
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
