i've confirmed it here. I'm running Windows XP Corporate Edition (
English ) with SP1 applied and all other fixes available on
windowsupdate.microsoft.com. Opening the file you sent causes an
immediately reboot of the machine. That's very strange, for sure :)

Sincerily,
Leonardo Rodrigues

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew" <aconnell (at) xtra.co (dot) nz [email concealed]>
To: <bugtraq (at) securityfocus (dot) com [email concealed]>; <vulnwatch (at) vulnwatch (dot) org [email concealed]>
Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 12:36 PM
Subject: Opentype font file causes Windows to restart.

> Problem
> -------
>
> 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
> -----------------
> 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
> ---
> No fix known.
>

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