Microsoft security update for CVE-2018-0855 — Windows
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products5
- Windows 7 for 32-bit Systems Service Pack 1
- Windows 7 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1
- Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanium-Based Systems Service Pack 1
- Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1
- Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1 (Server Core installation)
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 2 KB articles
2 rows: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2018-0855
- EchelonGraph score
- 4.3 MEDIUM
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
The Microsoft Windows Embedded OpenType (EOT) font engine in Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 allows information disclosure, due to how the Windows EOT font engine handles embedded fonts, aka "Windows EOT Font Engine Information Disclosure Vulnerability". This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2018-0755, CVE-2018-0760, and CVE-2018-0761.
Published by Microsoft Corporation, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2018-0855, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).