CVE-2016-3209

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Published 2016-10-14 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
5.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.5

Description

Graphics Device Interface (aka GDI or GDI+) in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2; Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1; Windows 7 SP1; Windows 8.1; Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2; Windows RT 8.1; Windows 10 Gold, 1511, and 1607; Office 2007 SP3; Office 2010 SP2; Word Viewer; Skype for Business 2016; Lync 2013 SP1; Lync 2010; Lync 2010 Attendee; Live Meeting 2007 Console; .NET Framework 3.0 SP2, 3.5, 3.5.1, 4.5.2, and 4.6; and Silverlight 5 allows remote attackers to bypass the ASLR protection mechanism via unspecified vectors, aka "True Type Font Parsing Information Disclosure Vulnerability."

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
55%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-40598 dos windows verified
Google Security Research ยท 2016-10-20

Microsoft Windows - 'win32k.sys' TTF Processing RCVT TrueType Instruction Handler Out-of-Bounds Read (MS16-120)

Source code queued for fetch โ€” refresh in a moment.

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
windows windows-affected
windows windows1511affected
windows windows1607affected
windows windowsaffected
windows windowsr2affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
windows microsoft.net_framework3.0
windows microsoft.net_framework3.5
windows microsoft.net_framework3.5.1
windows microsoft.net_framework4.5.2
windows microsoft.net_framework4.6
windows microsoftlive_meeting2007
windows microsoftlync2010
windows microsoftlync2013
windows microsoftoffice2007
windows microsoftoffice2010
windows microsoftsilverlight5.0
windows microsoftskype_for_business2016
windows microsoftword_viewer-

References

CWEs

CWE-200

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.