By Nancy Rand, Posted in Security
July 1, Softpedia – (International) Google finds 16 bugs, 2 zero-days, in Windows kernel font handling. Microsoft released patches for its Windows kernel that fixed 16 flaws after security researchers from Project Zero discovered that Windows executes all font processing operations in the kernel’s ring-0 with the highest level of permissions, allowing attackers to have direct access to the entire operating system (OS). Source
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