Microsoft Security Bulletin MS15-078 - Critical

Discussion in 'other security issues & news' started by ronjor, Jul 20, 2015.

  1. ronjor

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    Huh. I figured we'd see more of this, didn't figure on so soon.

    Interesting note: Truetype fonts are actually their own Turing-complete language. Which means the Halting Problem applies, which means you can never demonstrate that a TTF font won't do something nasty when rendered. Which means that the Windows kernel parsing fonts on behalf of userspace applications is a profoundly bad design - it can literally not be made secure.
     
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