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Title: CVE-2010-1120
Post by: HCK on April 21, 2010, 07:00:58 am
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 a specially crafted PDF file
opened in [...]
         

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