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CVE-2009-3743

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 6.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2010-08-26 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-189

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 products

• Artifex Afpl Ghostscript: 6.0, 6.01, 6.50, 7.00, 7.03, 7.04 (+10)
• Artifex Ghostscript Fonts: 6.0, 8.11
• Artifex Gpl Ghostscript: through 8.70; 8.01, 8.15, 8.50, 8.51, 8.54, 8.56 (+6)

References

• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-17.xml
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/644319
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/JALR-87YGN8
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/514892/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024785
• https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0095.html
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-17.xml
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/644319
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/JALR-87YGN8
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/514892/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024785
• https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0095.html

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