On the 8th December 2015, Microsoft released Security Bulletin MS15-130 to fix a vulnerability in Unicode Scripts Processor component found by Secunia Research. The vector for a successful exploitation is a specially crafted "True Type Font" (TTF) file, which typically can be embedded in e.g. Microsoft Office documents or even in emails and web-based content depending on the font type. Successful exploitation could result in arbitrary code execution.
ae0792efc0a69b310511509667b6228f00070e222be6e495c2a81037abe590ffSecunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. The vulnerability is caused due to an integer underflow error within the "GetFontDesc()" function in usp10.dll when processing font files cmap table and can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a font file containing cmap table data with specially crafted offset within encoding records. Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.
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