Secunia Security Advisory - Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Microsoft Windows, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges and by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
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TITLE:
Microsoft Windows Win32k Kernel-Mode Driver Multiple Vulnerabilities
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA37318
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/37318/
DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Microsoft Windows, which
can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated
privileges and by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
1) An unspecified error in the Win32k kernel-mode driver (Win32k.sys)
when parsing font code can be exploited to execute arbitrary code if a
user views content rendered in a specially crafted Embedded OpenType
(EOT) font, e.g. when a user visits a malicious web site.
2) Some vulnerabilities in the Win32k kernel-mode driver can be
exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
For more information:
SA37309
SOLUTION:
Apply patches.
Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=45db8bb1-c81b-4d3f-a658-74f5fa445f81
Windows XP SP2 / SP3:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=916abdad-44b7-4f9d-986a-0c3558fb8e06
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition SP2:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1d0464c6-5ed8-4064-887e-618a2db09236
Windows Server 2003 SP2:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5cd62750-e269-44ae-8c7c-c335e8545b9a
Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition SP2:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=04a7f817-f330-4003-8b25-d3e744905b12
Windows Server 2003 with SP2 for Itanium-based Systems:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=b95daac0-4c99-47a4-b0ca-9429997ea3d9
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
1) The vendor credits Tavis Ormandy of Google Inc.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
MS09-065 (KB969947):
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS09-065.mspx
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA37309:
http://secunia.com/advisories/37309/
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