CVE-2009-3743

N/A
Published: August 26, 2010 at 08:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:12 PM UTC
4 products affected across 1 vendorGpl GhostscriptAfpl GhostscriptGhostscript Fonts

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 7%

Description

Off-by-one error in the Ins_MINDEX function in the TrueType bytecode interpreter in Ghostscript before 8.71 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via a malformed TrueType font in a document that trigger an integer overflow and a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected

Remediation

No guide yet

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References (6)

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNUS Government Resource
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/644319
x_refsource_MISCUS Government Resource
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/JALR-87YGN8

CVSS

Confidentiality
COMPLETE
Integrity
COMPLETE
Availability
COMPLETE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-189

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