Title: Windows Kernel Font Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Severity: HIGH
Description:
The Microsoft Windows Kernel is prone to a locally exploitable privilege-escalation vulnerability. This issue is caused by an unchecked buffer when handling malicious fonts. In particular, the operating system fails to perform sufficient bounds checking when processing font-related data. This will potentially allow an attacker to corrupt kernel memory with attacker-specified data.The attacker may then gain control over execution flow and completely compromise the vulnerable computer.
Exploitation attempts could also result in a denial of service. Microsoft has reported that the vulnerability will most likely cause a denial of service on Windows XP SP2 platforms. The vendor has also stated that this vulnerability is not critical on Windows 98/98SE/ME, possibly because of lack of multiuser support on the operating system.
Affected Products:
- Avaya DefinityOne Media Servers
- Avaya IP600 Media Servers
- Avaya S3400 Message Application Server
- Avaya S8100 Media Servers
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP3
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP4
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server SP1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server SP2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server SP3
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server SP4
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP3
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP4
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server SP1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server SP2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server SP3
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server SP4
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Terminal Services
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Terminal Services SP1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Terminal Services SP2
- Microsoft Windows 98
- Microsoft Windows 98SE
- Microsoft Windows ME
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition Itanium
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition Itanium
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Itanium
- Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition
- Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition SP1
- Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition Version 2003
- Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition Version 2003 SP1
- Microsoft Windows XP Home
- Microsoft Windows XP Home SP1
- Microsoft Windows XP Home SP2
- Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition
- Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition SP1
- Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition SP2
- Microsoft Windows XP Professional
- Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP1
- Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2
- Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition
- Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition SP1
- Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition SP2
References:
- Microsoft: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS05-018
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