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Posted on 14 March 2012
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TITLE:
Microsoft Windows DirectWrite Unicode Parsing Denial of Service
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA48361
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RELEASE DATE:
2012-03-13
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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft Windows, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to an error in DirectWrite and can be
exploited to cause an application using the API to stop responding
(e.g. Windows Live Messenger) via a specially crafted sequence of
Unicode characters.
SOLUTION:
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PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Khaled M. Salameh.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
MS12-019 (KB2665364):
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms12-019
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