Vulnerability in Microsoft Font Driver Could Allow Remote Code Execution 

system · 2015-07-21T15:59:02.000Z

Anyone know if Avast! is protecting against this new font vulnerability??

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms15-078.aspx

Thank you!

Eddy · 2015-07-21T16:09:21.000Z

MS has already released a (emergency) patch, no need for avast to protect you from it.
Simply keep your system up-to-date.

system · 2015-07-21T16:18:52.000Z

Thanks for the reply Eddy. Our organization has a testing process for all MS updates, so this probably won’t be applied for a few days. However, our AVAST! receives updates as soon as Avast releases them. So I was just wondering if there is already protection from AVAST! for this.

Thanks!

Eddy · 2015-07-21T18:12:12.000Z

More information about the patch:
https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/MS15-078

The good news:
https://www.avast.com/virus-update-history
AMongst some other things, the TTF:CVE-2015-2426 [Expl] detection was added yesterday

system · 2015-07-21T18:31:53.000Z

Awesome… thank you Eddy!

-Matt

Eddy · 2015-07-21T19:05:23.000Z

You’re welcome.

It really isn’t hard to find out the answer to questions like you have asked.

1] Lookup information about the vulnerability (mainly to find the CVE number).
Ofcourse you can look at the technet website, but news websites almost always have also information about it.
Many offer a link to the information on a MS website.

2] Look at the avast VPS history.

If you have a problem, want to ask something or…
You know how to find this webboard

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