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Title: CVE-2010-1120
Post by: HCK on December 17, 2010, 11:00:33 pm
CVE-2010-1120
      


DESCRIPTION: A vulnerability has been reported in Apple Mac OS X, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user’s system. The vulnerability is caused due to an indexing error in Apple Type Services within the “TType1ParsingContext::SpecialEncoding()” method in libFontParser.dylib when parsing embedded fonts. This can be exploited to corrupt memory e.g. via [...]
         

http://ithreats.net/2010/04/16/cve-2010-1120/