• Windows Kernel Vulnerability

    George Chetcuti Posted On December 12, 2013
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    Windows kernel is prone to security vulnerability when executing the (GDI support) function RFONTOBJ::bTextExtent located in win32k.sys. This vulnerability could be exploited by an attacker to crash the windows kernel by calling the user mode function NtGdiGetTextExtent with specially crafted arguments.

    Read more here - http://www.coresecurity.com/advisories/divide-error-windows-kernel

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