CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-0231

8.8 HIGH Published 2009-07-15 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2009-07-15
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-681

Description

The Embedded OpenType (EOT) Font Engine (T2EMBED.DLL) in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP2, Vista Gold, SP1, and SP2, and Server 2008 Gold and SP2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted name table in a data record that triggers an integer truncation and a heap-based buffer overflow, aka "Embedded OpenType Font Heap Overflow Vulnerability."

Affected configurations

• microsoft windows 2000 • microsoft windows server 2003 • microsoft windows server 2008 • microsoft windows vista • microsoft windows xp

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-681 Incorrect Conversion between Numeric Types weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (2)

  • CWE-197 Numeric Truncation Error weakness
  • CWE-681 Incorrect Conversion between Numeric Types weakness

References