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CVE-2009-3743

Off-by-one error in the Ins_MINDEX function in the TrueType bytecode interpreter in Ghostscript before 8.71 allows remot

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.

HIGH · CVSS 9.3 EPSS 0.03936
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  • CVSS base score ≥ 7.0
Sigma rules0 YARA rules0
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Affected Products & Versions

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artifex afpl ghostscriptall versions
artifex ghostscript fontsall versions
artifex gpl ghostscript<= 8.70
artifex gpl ghostscriptall versions
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Scoring & Timeline

9.3
HIGH · CVSS v2 (legacy) · cret@cert.org
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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.
v2 Vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Published to NVD26 Aug 2010 · 09:00 PM
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Vendor Advisories

2
usnUSN-1317-1
rhsaRHSA-2012:0095Moderate
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References & Sources

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Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-17.xml
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/644319US Government Resource
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/JALR-87YGN8US Government Resource
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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