Express Compressed Fonts Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2017-8691 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, and Windows 7 SP1 allow an attacker to execute code remotely on a target system when the Windows font library fails to properly handle specially crafted embedded fonts, aka "Express Compressed Fonts Remote Code Execution Vulnerability."

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