i've confirmed it here. I'm running Windows XP Corporate Edition ( English ) with SP1 applied and all other fixes available on windowsupdate.microsoft.com. Opening the file you sent causes an immediately reboot of the machine. That's very strange, for sure :) Sincerily, Leonardo Rodrigues ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew" <aconnell@xtra.co.nz> To: <bugtraq@securityfocus.com>; <vulnwatch@vulnwatch.org> Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 12:36 PM Subject: Opentype font file causes Windows to restart. > Problem > ------- > > The attached OpenType font file will cause Windows to restart > immediately when the file is opened by the default viewer (fontview). > I doubt anyone would suspect a "harmless" little font file of being > able to cause such a thing to happen! > > Software affected > ----------------- > It has been tested on both Windows 2000 and Windows XP with exactly > the same result -- an immediate restart. Other versions of Windows > are untested. > > Fix > --- > No fix known. >