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RE: Opentype font file causes Windows to restart. Jan 07 2003 05:12PM
Discini, Sonny (Sonny Discini co mo md us)
Windows98 - No reboot.

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew [mailto:aconnell (at) xtra.co (dot) nz [email concealed]]
Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 10:37 AM
To: bugtraq (at) securityfocus (dot) com [email concealed]; vulnwatch (at) vulnwatch (dot) org [email concealed]
Subject: Opentype font file causes Windows to restart.

Problem
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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
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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
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No fix known.

- Andrew Connell

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