9.3
CVSSv2

CVE-2009-3743

Published: 26/08/2010 Updated: 10/10/2018
CVSS v2 Base Score: 9.3 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
VMScore: 828
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

Off-by-one error in the Ins_MINDEX function in the TrueType bytecode interpreter in Ghostscript prior to 8.71 allows remote malicious users 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.

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artifex gpl ghostscript 8.64

artifex afpl ghostscript 7.00

artifex afpl ghostscript 6.50

artifex afpl ghostscript 8.14

artifex afpl ghostscript 8.13

artifex gpl ghostscript 8.01

artifex ghostscript fonts 6.0

artifex gpl ghostscript 8.54

artifex afpl ghostscript 8.53

artifex afpl ghostscript 6.01

artifex afpl ghostscript 6.0

artifex afpl ghostscript 8.12

artifex afpl ghostscript 8.11

artifex afpl ghostscript 8.52

artifex afpl ghostscript 8.00

artifex gpl ghostscript 8.15

artifex gpl ghostscript 8.60

artifex gpl ghostscript 8.61

artifex gpl ghostscript 8.56

artifex gpl ghostscript 8.62

artifex gpl ghostscript 8.63

artifex afpl ghostscript 8.54

artifex gpl ghostscript

artifex afpl ghostscript 7.04

artifex afpl ghostscript 7.03

artifex afpl ghostscript 8.51

artifex afpl ghostscript 8.50

artifex gpl ghostscript 8.50

artifex ghostscript fonts 8.11

artifex gpl ghostscript 8.57

artifex gpl ghostscript 8.51

Vendor Advisories

Synopsis Moderate: ghostscript security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic Updated ghostscript packages that fix multiple security issues are nowavailable for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderatesecurity impact Comm ...
Ghostscript could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file ...
An integer overflow flaw was found in Ghostscript's TrueType bytecode interpreter An attacker could create a specially-crafted PostScript or PDF file that, when interpreted, could cause Ghostscript to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code (CVE-2009-3743) It was found that Ghostscript always tried to read Ghostscript system initialization ...