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MS12-019 - Moderate : Vulnerability in DirectWrite Could Allow Denial of Service (2665364) -...

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Severity Rating: Moderate

Revision Note: V1.0 (March 13, 2012): Bulletin published.

Summary: This security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability in Windows DirectWrite. In an Instant Messenger-based attack scenario, the vulnerability could allow denial of service if an attacker sends a specially crafted sequence of Unicode characters directly to an Instant Messenger client. The target application could become unresponsive when DirectWrite renders the specially crafted sequence of Unicode characters.

 

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