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CVE-2016-0120
published 2016-03-09

CVE-2016-0120: The Adobe Type Manager Library in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2…

PriorityP354medium6.5CVSS 3.0
AVNACLPRNUIRSUCNINAH
EXPLOIT
EPSS
39.05%
98.4th percentile
The Adobe Type Manager Library in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, Windows RT 8.1, and Windows 10 Gold and 1511 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system hang) via a crafted OpenType font, aka "OpenType Font Parsing Vulnerability."

Affected

3 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
microsoftwindows_10
microsoftwindows_server_2008
microsoftwindows_server_2012

Detection & IOCsextracted from sources · hover to see the quote

filenameATMFD.dll
  • Monitor for stack buffer overrun bugcheck 0xF7 (DRIVER_OVERRAN_STACK_BUFFER) originating from ATMFD.DLL, indicating exploitation of the OTF font parsing vulnerability.
  • Look for stack corruption events in ATMFD.DLL at offsets +0x15720, +0x357f6, and +0x35b0e on 32-bit Windows 7/8.1 systems as indicators of active exploitation.
  • Alert on unexpected kernel crashes in csrss.exe context involving ATMFD.DLL, as the font is processed in the kernel via the OpenType driver.
  • ·The stack cookie mismatch values (Expected 98ee9e09, found a6703535) are specific to the crash environment and will vary across systems and ATMFD.DLL builds; do not use them as universal detection signatures.
  • ·Reproduction was confirmed only on Windows 7 and 8.1 (32-bit); other platforms were not tested by the researcher, so detection coverage on other affected OS versions (Vista, Server 2008, Windows 10, etc.) is unverified.
  • ·The specific root cause within ATMFD.DLL was not fully determined by the researcher; detections based on stack offsets may not generalize across all patched/unpatched ATMFD.DLL versions.

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.06.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
nvdv2.07.1HIGHAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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