National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-2738
Original release date:09/15/2010
Last revised:07/19/2011
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The Uniscribe (aka new Unicode Script Processor) implementation in USP10.DLL in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP2, Vista SP1 and SP2, and Server 2008 Gold and SP2, and Microsoft Office XP SP3, 2003 SP3, and 2007 SP2, does not properly validate tables associated with malformed OpenType fonts, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted (1) web site or (2) Office document, aka "Uniscribe Font Parsing Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: MS
Name: MS10-063
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7214
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7214
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
