Month: February 2016
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Yes, Font Files can Own Your Computer! For Over a Decade…
[This was originally published on RiskBasedSecurity.com.] On February 5, the Cisco Talos research team published an advisory covering several vulnerabilities in the Graphite (a.k.a. libgraphite) project. According to the vendor page, it “is a ‘smart font’ system developed specifically to handle the complexities of lesser-known languages of the world.” This prompted the media and some in our industry to comment…