Type 1 font handling messed up by December 11, 2012 update KB2753842

Anonymous
2012-12-13T00:15:42+00:00

Programs like Quark Xpress and Coreldraw on Windows 7 and XP have their Type 1 font handling broken by this patch. Characters larger than 15 pt. become invisible. Uninstalling the patch removes the problem. We have 330 machines with this problem. Is Microsoft getting ready to release a fix for this?

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Anonymous
2013-01-02T09:53:51+00:00

Hello all,

Please be informed, that MS12-078 now has been updated – you can read more about the update here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms12-078

Why was this bulletin rereleased on December 20, 2012? ****Microsoft rereleased this bulletin to address a known issue in the KB2753842 update related to OpenType Fonts (OTF) not properly rendering in applications after the original update was applied. Customers who have successfully installed the original KB2753842 update are protected from the vulnerability described in CVE-2012-2556. However, customers need to install the rereleased KB2753842 update to resolve the issue with improper OpenType font rendering and to keep the affected binaries up to date.

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  1. Anonymous
    2012-12-14T22:01:24+00:00

    The only workaround obviously is uninstalling the heavily broken hot"fix".

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-12-14T20:34:26+00:00

    But there *is* a workaround, a fairly simple and completely effective one.

    What is the workaround? (besides uninstalling the KB) I am an engineer who's software is affected by this and would like to know my options.

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-12-14T20:17:49+00:00

    When they update the KB for "known issues" is when you will get your authoritative statement.  At the time of the release of the bulletin they knew of no issues.  Right now Claude is getting to the right people, I've sent alerts/info up various resources, it has to churn it's way through the process.  Hang tight, stuff will happen now.

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  4. Anonymous
    2012-12-14T20:15:50+00:00

    You should be able to go into add/remove (XP) and programs and features (win7) and uninstall the speific update.

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