CVE-2019-1148

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2019-1148. PoCs published by Google Security Research.

AI-analyzed exploit summary The exploit demonstrates a crash in Microsoft Font Subsetting DLL (fontsub.dll) due to a negative index into the glyph ID array, leading to an access violation. The PoC includes malformed font files that trigger the vulnerability, potentially allowing sensitive data disclosure from the process heap.

An information disclosure vulnerability exists when the Microsoft Windows Graphics Component improperly handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could obtain information to further compromise the user’s system. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would have to log on to an affected system and run a specially crafted application. The update addresses the vulnerability by correcting the way in which the Windows Graphics Component handles objects in memory.