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TrueType but not Truly Safe: The New Zero-Day Event

08
Nov
2011

A new vulnerability in Windows, CVE -2011-3402, has been recently identified and is already exploited in the wild. For now, only a handful of targeted attacks have been found. The vulnerability exists in Windows TrueType Font Parsing Engine and affects most Windows versions, including Windows 7. An attack involves a file which has a maliciously […]

Category Security Written by M86 Security Labs Blog 0 Comments

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Microsoft publishes a workaround for Duqu Malware

04
Nov
2011

We have written already about Stuxnet v2 or TR/Duqu and we mentioned that Avira detects it TR/Spy.Duqu.A and TR/Duqu.A.1. This malware uses a vulnerability in a Microsoft Windows component, the TrueType font parsing engine. The vulnerability is caused when the Windows kernel-mode driver win32k.sys fails to properly handle the TrueType font type. An attacker who […]

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